Data Warehousing Tip #8 – Make it better
In this article I’ll discuss making your data warehouse better. I’ll admit that this is a pretty obvious aspiration, but...
2019-02-11
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Data Warehousing Tip #5 – Use surrogate keys
My fifth data warehousing tip is to always use surrogate keys for your dimension and fact tables.
Surrogate keys are keys...
2019-02-07 (first published: 2019-01-18)
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Data Warehousing Tip #4 – Trust your instinct
My fourth data warehousing tip is to trust your instinct when it comes to building solutions, and if to you...
2019-01-21 (first published: 2019-01-14)
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Data Warehousing Tip #3 – Build thin slice
My third data warehousing tip is to build thin slice. Deliver subsets of valuable functionality. Get feedback and buy in,...
2019-01-16 (first published: 2019-01-07)
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Data Warehousing Tip #2 – What your data warehouse should be
I’ve seen data warehouses that nobody trusts, or are just too complex for end users to report on. Users will...
2018-12-28
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Data Warehousing Tip #1 – Store fact data at the leaf level
My first data warehousing tip is to store fact data at the leaf level. If you aggregate your fact data...
2018-12-10
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Reducing the size of the distribution database & improving transactional replication performance: Part 3
Part 1 of this series of articles looked at the intricacies of SQL Server transactional replication, and made the observation that the...
2014-10-27 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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Reducing the size of the distribution database & improving transactional replication performance: Part 2
The impact of having data sitting in the distribution database that doesn’t need to be there can be significant. The...
2012-11-26
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Reducing the size of the distribution database & improving transactional replication performance: Part 1
In this series of blog posts I will looking at issues regarding the size and performance of the distribution database as...
2012-11-08
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The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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