Sorting a String as a Number with T-SQL and SSIS
I was working on a Cube in Analysis Services for a client recently and needed to sort on a field...
2012-01-23
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How to hide Calculated Members in MDX SSAS
With some calculated members in MDX it only makes sense to see the calculation if a certain Hierarchy is used....
2011-10-28
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Setting up SSIS Auditing Part 2
Auditing in SSIS can be a real headache. In this two part series blog I am going to try to...
2011-10-20
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Setting up SSIS Auditing Part 1
Auditing in SSIS can be a real headache. In this two part series blog I am going to try to...
2011-10-16
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Using Configuration Tables in SSIS 2008/2005
SSIS packages are great ETL tools and can do just about anything you need in terms of ETL. Most organizations...
2011-10-03
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Creating your first Data Mining Structure and Model
Data mining is a great way to help your company make decisions and predict future values. The Data Mining Algorithms...
2011-09-30
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Getting Previous Row in SSIS Data Flow
There is no native function built in to SSIS to get the previous row in the data flow. But with...
2011-09-29
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SSIS For Each Column in a Data flow
Previously I wrote a blog on how to do a for each loop to look through each col in an...
2011-09-29
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SSIS Merge with Duplicate Rows
The Merge component in SSIS will take two sorted sources and union them while maintaining the original sort order. The...
2011-09-28
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SSIS Child Errors in Parent Package
If you have a parent package that is looping through a set of files and calling child packages and want...
2011-09-27
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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