Data Warehousing Tip: T-SQL Script to Create DEFAULT Constraints by Data Type
There is an ongoing discussion/debate regarding the handling of NULLS in a data warehouse, however, the following article by Michelle...
2013-09-11
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Data Warehousing Tip: T-SQL Script to Create DEFAULT Constraints by Data Type
There is an ongoing discussion/debate regarding the handling of NULLS in a data warehouse, however, the following article by Michelle Poolet summarizes it beautifully – “consider the data warehouse...
2013-09-11
Data Warehousing Tip: Using T-SQL vs SSIS for Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) Types 1 and 2
Here’s an example of using T-SQL to process a Slowly Changing Type 1&2 Dimension . Note: SSIS has an SCD transform...
2013-09-11
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Data Warehousing Tip: Using T-SQL vs SSIS for Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) Types 1 and 2
Here’s an example of using T-SQL to process a Slowly Changing Type 1&2 Dimension . Note: SSIS has an SCD transform ,however, it does not process large dimensional datasets...
2013-09-11
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Tip: Useful Appliance Queries
This post contains the following queries that support development and operational tasks within a Microsoft Parallel Data Warehousing (PDW) Appliance...
2013-04-20
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Data Warehousing Tip: Surrogate Key Generation
If IDENTITY insert is disabled or simply not available in a particular database or a database architecture, you’ll want to...
2013-04-12
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Data Warehousing Tip: Surrogate Key Generation
If IDENTITY insert is disabled or simply not available in a particular database or a database architecture, you’ll want to do a table based surrogate key assignment or use...
2013-04-12
SSAS How-To: Create Dynamic Time Calculations To Reuse Over Any Measure
Rather than making individual time calculations for each measure in an SSAS cube (i.e. YTD, Prior YTD, YTD Variances, etc), one can...
2013-02-07
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SSAS How-To: Create Dynamic Time Calculations To Reuse Over Any Measure
Rather than making individual time calculations for each measure in an SSAS cube (i.e. YTD, Prior YTD, YTD Variances, etc), one can use a more dynamic approach to time calcs applicable to all...
2013-02-07
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SSRS How-To: Simple Method to Pass MDX Multi-Select Parameters to MDX Datasets
SSRS Tip: Simplest Method to Pass MDX Multi-Select Parameters to MDX Datasets
I recently ran across a poorly covered topic in regards...
2013-02-07
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