As anyone who reads my blog on a regular basis knows, I’m a big fan of using dynamic configurations, including SSIS parameters variables, to make my ETL architectures as...
2020-01-03 (first published: 2019-12-21)
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The JOIN() function in SQL Server Reporting Services is a handy tool that allows you to turn a list into a delimited string value. This function accepts two parameters,...
2019-12-22
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Visual Studio and its business intelligence variant SQL Server Data Tools share a very powerful but extremely busy interface. If you happen to close out of one of the...
2019-12-20
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This quick tip is likely to be the most brief of the entire collection, but is also one of the most practical. When testing SSIS packages during development in...
2019-12-19
Most folks I know go to one extreme or the other when it comes to the visual layout of SQL Server Integration Services packages: either they don’t care a...
2019-12-18
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Ordinarily I wouldn’t blog solely about a set of right-click options in an application, but in this Eleven Days of Festivus series I’m sharing some quick tips that have...
2019-12-17
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Regular expressions (or simply regex for short) have long been used by system administrators and data professionals for searching and manipulating text. Regular expressions allow the user to find,...
2019-12-16
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I’m a creature of habit. With the software tools that I use, I like to have everything in the same place every time, even if I’m working on a...
2019-12-15
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Did you know that SQL Server Management Studio can help you arrange your SQL scripts into logical groupings? SSMS includes the ability to associate multiple code files together into...
2019-12-14
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Occasionally, I’ll stumble across one of those neat tricks that makes me ask myself, “Why didn’t I know about this years ago?”. This next tip was one such discovery,...
2019-12-13
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By Will Assaf
Working on a SQL 2017 database where an external, non-Microsoft application has direct access...
Last year Azure SQL Database Managed Instance saw the introduction of bring your own...
This article takes us to the edge with a couple of CRM related errors...
Folks: I have to extract the date from this string which is between files_...
I have Analysis Services cubes with over 200 dimensions in them (product requirement believe...
Hello, We are a small shop and want to run, for data warehousing/reporting, 2016...
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