Script to Populate Date Dimension, without Using a Cursor
Most of the scripts I've used to populate date dimension uses a cursor. Since data is loaded only once to...
2013-01-22
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Samuel Vanga
Script to Populate Date Dimension, without Using a Cursor
Most of the scripts I’ve used to populate date dimension uses a cursor. Since data is loaded only once to...
2013-01-22
812 reads
SQL Server Views
This post is first of yet to come long series on basic concepts of SQL Server. I’ll begin with basic...
2013-01-22
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Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues
Standards and best practices are like flu shots you take before you're infected; Database best practices protect your databases from...
2013-01-15
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Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues
Standards and best practices are like flu shots you take before you’re infected; Database best practices protect your databases from...
2013-01-15
495 reads
Every ebook from Apress for $15
Query Performance Tuning. Grant Fritchey. $15. If this doesn’t excite you, nothing will. Apress is offering every e-book for just $15...
2012-11-26
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PASS SQL Saturday World Map
I had the pleasure of helping Karla Landrum (@Karlakay22) for the PASS Summit 2012 by creating two dashboards: SQL Saturday...
2012-11-20
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PASS Summit 2012 Twitter Dashboard
As a business intelligence developer, my skills include taking the raw data, shaking it to remove all the junk, and...
2012-11-12
1,530 reads
Create Several Shell SSIS Packages In Minutes Using BIML
What do i mean by shell packages? You’re spot on – that’s an excellent question to begin with. For the purpose...
2012-10-22 (first published: 2012-10-16)
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Generate Uniqueidentifier with SSIS
If you are trying to generate Uniqueidentifier/Newid() in SSIS data flow, you will soon realize that there is no out-of-the-box...
2012-10-16 (first published: 2012-10-10)
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Blogs
Modify Power BI page visibility and active status with Semantic Link Labs
Setting page visibility and the active page are often overlooked last steps when publishing...
T-SQL Tuesday #190–Mastering a New Technical Skill
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Todd Kleinhans has a great...
Getting Started with the MSSQL AI Agent in VS Code
By Steve Jones
Recently I was working in VS Code and I saw a walkthrough for the...
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Azure elastic query credential question
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Using table variables in T-SQL
What happens if you run the following code in SQL Server 2022+?
declare @t1 table (id int); insert into @t1 (id) values (NULL), (1), (2), (3); select count(*) from @t1 where @t1.id is distinct from NULL;See possible answers