More Changes for the Dimension Merge SCD?
A while back, I ran a contest to find a new name for the SCD component hosted on CodePlex. The results were the best "lemons into lemonade" situation I could...
2011-03-14
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More Changes for the Dimension Merge SCD?
A while back, I ran a contest to find a new name for the SCD component hosted on CodePlex. The results were the best "lemons into lemonade" situation I could...
2011-03-14
4 reads
Say Hi to the Dimension Merge SCD Component
Last week was a great week all around. It started with Canada's first SQL Saturday in Vancouver - packed with over 300 attendees watching five tracks of local speakers...
2011-03-09
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Say Hi to the Dimension Merge SCD Component
Last week was a great week all around. It started with Canada's first SQL Saturday in Vancouver - packed with over...
2011-03-09
1,033 reads
Say Hi to the Dimension Merge SCD Component
Last week was a great week all around. It started with Canada's first SQL Saturday in Vancouver - packed with over 300 attendees watching five tracks of local speakers...
2011-03-09
3 reads
Changes to the SSIS Slowly Changing Dimension Component
Probably not the kind of change you're expecting. I've recently been contacted by the Kimball Group, and they've asked me...
2011-03-03
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Changes to the SSIS Slowly Changing Dimension Component
Probably not the kind of change you're expecting. I've recently been contacted by the Kimball Group, and they've asked me...
2011-02-25
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How To: Load Dimension Tables with Integration Services - Introduction
When I first started down the business intelligence and data warehousing road, I needed to learn the foundations of dimensional...
2011-02-16
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Performing a Cross Join (Cartesian Product) in SSIS
There are a few times where you might want to perform a cross join/cartesian join/cartesian product operation in SSIS. One of...
2010-09-28
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Parallelism in SSIS - Multiple Lookups
This question just came up in the forums, and it highlights how difficult it can be to try to optimize...
2010-09-06
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;