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Sorting data in the SSIS Pipeline (Video)

In this post I want to show a couple of ways to order the data that comes into the pipeline. a number of people have asked me about this primarily because there are a number of ways to do it but also because some components in the pipeline take sorted inputs. One of the methods I show is visually easy to understand and the other is less visual but potentially more performant.

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2010-06-18

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Writing a Data Access Layer (DAL) for SQL Server

In this tip, I am going to show you how you can create a Data Access Layer (to store, retrieve and manage data in relational database) in ADO .NET. I will show how you can make it data provider independent, so that you don't have to re-write your data access layer if the data storage source changes and also you can reuse it in other applications that you develop.

2010-06-17

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How to Conduct Effective Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Software Evaluations

Denise Rogers discusses the essential tasks in conducting effective software evaluations revolving around data warehousing and business intellegence. Each step has a dependency on the previous one, starting with establishing the framework of the evaluation and adding progressively elaborate data that facilitates a decision making process that is resolute.

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2010-06-11

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Exploring Derived Column Transformation in SQL Server Integration Services

Marcin Policht examines SQL Server Integration Services' component, Derived Column Transformation,and how its usefulness is enhanced by its ability to implement fairly elaborate mathematical, logical, and string operations.

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2010-06-10

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SQL Server and the XML Data Type : Data Manipulation

The introduction of the xml data type, with its own set of methods for processing xml data, made it possible for SQL Server developers to create columns and variables of the type xml. Deanna Dicken examines the modify() method, which provides for data manipulation of the XML data stored in the xml data type via XML DML statements.

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2010-06-08

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