CHECKSUM vs HashBytes
Hashing can be useful in Data Warehousing as well It can give you the ability to break large problems into...
2012-02-01
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Garrett Hilton Edmondson
Tabular Model
One of the most exciting features in SQL Server 2012 is the introduction of the Tabular Model. The Tabular model...
2012-01-31
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Master Data Services 2012
As I mentioned in a pervious post Master Data Services for SQL 2012 is a huge improvement over the SQL...
2012-01-19
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SSIS ETL Frameworks
In my years as a BI Professional I have seen many ETL Frameworks. They range from homegrown internal solution to...
2012-01-04
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Learn SQL 2012
Microsoft is working on the next round of certification exams for SQL Server 2012. So now is the best time...
2011-12-28
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ETL from Oracle to SQL Server
I was recently asked to provide some performance tuning recommendations for an ETL process that extracts data from Oracle using...
2011-12-21
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Data Mining
Data mining techniques can be used in virtually all business applications, answering various types of businesses questions. In truth, given...
2011-12-14
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SQL Server 2008R2 BI Presenations
I recently gave a couple of presentations about the new Business Intelligence features in SQL Server 2008 R2. Here are...
2011-11-11
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Dimensional Modeling Financial Data in SSAS pt2
Unary Operator and Aggregating over time
In my last post I discussed how to arrange all of the GLs into a...
2011-11-03
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Dimensional Modeling Financial Data in SSAS
Part 1 – Parent Child Hierarchies and Pseudo GL Accounts
This post is born out of some real life lessons that I...
2011-10-26
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Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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data compare between 2 tables with same structure for any changes after etl run
i have huge table with lot of data and is also wide. i took...
Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document II
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams;See possible answers