Join Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson as he continues his subseries surrounding components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In this article we continue our introduction to dimension attributes, focusing upon the Misc group of attribute properties.
2008-05-29
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The Trash Destination and this article came from early experiences of using SSIS and community feedback at the time. When developing a package it is very useful to have a destination adapter that does nothing but consume rows with no setup requirement. You often want run a package part way through development, or just add a path so you can set a Data Viewer.
2008-05-29
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This component needs little explanation. It generates random integer (DT_I4) and string (DT_WSTR) data and places them in the pipeline. You specify how many columns of each you would like and for any string columns you pass a fixed length value. You then need to specify how many rows in total you require to be generated.
2008-05-28
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Last time, we discussed Table inheritance, which allowed us to easily reduce redundancies in our table design by creating "base" or "super" tables that contain columns and relations that "sub-tables" automatically inherit.
2008-05-28
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I need a way to create a data dictionary that will stay up to date. I make many changes to the database and I spend more time trying to keep the documentation updated than doing database administration.
2008-05-27
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Learn how to use SQL Server Agent alerts and jobs to fix policy incompliance automatically.
2008-05-26
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William Brewer takes a look at the whole topic of SQL Code layout and beautification, an important aspect to SQL programming style. He concludes that once you are tired of laying SQL out by hand, you had better choose a tool with plenty of knobs to twiddle, because nobody seems to agree on the best way of doing it.
2008-05-26
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Database systems like Microsoft® SQL Server® have long supported triggers—developer-created scripts that automatically execute after or in place of INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements. Because triggers can access the data modified by INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE, they are an excellent tool for recording data changes to an audit log.
2008-05-23
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The SQL (Structured Query Language) language is a declarative language that became the "Data Language" used for describing "what I need" and "where to fetch it from" in most organizations. OOP (Object Oriented Programming) languages became the most common practice among developers widely adopted by R&D organizations around the world. So how do we bridge the gap?
2008-05-23
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People reading this post might really wonder of having read /heard about a concept on Dependency tracking in SQL Server 2008. It is nothing, but a set of built in existing SYS objects and their effective usage that help us save time & tedious efforts.
2008-05-22
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