Kimball ETL (subsystem 1) – Data Profiling via TSQL
This script will generate a report providing all normally expected statistics for data Profiling .(ie.. Min, Max, Unique Count, Pattern etc....)
2014-02-12 (first published: 2012-05-21)
4,145 reads
Ira Whiteside
Advanced SSIS Fuzzy Matching via Record Linkage Methodology
Greatly improve SSIS Fuzzy Grouping performance by using a Conditional Split and Multi Cast.
2012-07-05
7,967 reads
Master Data Services - SSIS MDM Load
The article will provide an overview of Master Data Services and a sample SSIS Package.
2010-03-02
10,267 reads
Dynamically Map Column Data Based on Column Pattern Profiling
Tutorial on using Script Component, Regular Expression and derived Column Transform to dynamically map different source column types into the appropriate target column for address data.
2010-02-23
3,371 reads
Roll Your Own Fuzzy Match / Grouping (Jaro Winkler) - T-SQL
Roll Your Own Fuzzy Match / Grouping (Jaro Winkler) - T-SQL
2009-06-10
45,449 reads
Providing Operational Analytics via Microsoft Analysis Services, Infor
This article will review the processes for providing Operational Analytics via Microsoft Analysis Services, Informatica and Qlikview
2009-06-03
2,001 reads
Data Profiling Column Functional Dependency T-SQL
This article demonstrates Data Profiling Functional Dependency
2009-05-20
4,557 reads
Roll Your Own SSIS Fuzzy Matching / Grouping (Jaro - Winkler)
Roll Your Own SSIS Fuzzy Matching / Grouping (Jaro - Winkler)
2009-03-04
11,373 reads
Extending SSIS Part 2 - SSIS Programmatically / Dynamically Building Packages
We bring you part 2 of a series on SSIS programming from Ira Whiteside and Actuality Business Intelligence. This article shows you how to dynamically build a package using code.
2008-10-10
18,550 reads
Extending SSIS Part 1 - Creating a Custom Data Flow Transformation Component
In part one of this series from Actuality Business Intelligence, Ira Whiteside brings us a look at building your own SSIS transformation.
2008-07-30
17,368 reads
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers