Bulk Insert Task SSIS – Path Specified Cannot be Found or File Does Not Exist
When using the Bulk insert task in SSIS, you might encounter an error stating that The File Does Not Exist...
2013-05-27
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Mike Davis SQL
Per Member Per Month Per 1000 Calculations in MDX
In a lot of industries there is a popular calculation called “Per Member Per Month Per 1000” calculation or the...
2013-05-24 (first published: 2013-05-20)
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SSRS Map Label Overlap Fixed
In Reporting Services 2008 r2 and above there is a great tool called the Map tool. It is great for...
2013-04-10
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Studying and Learning Business Intelligence
I have been doing interviews for Pragmatic works for the past few years and I have come across quite a...
2012-10-02
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Crystal Reports DataDate in SSRS
Crystal Reports has a special field name “DataDate”. This date shows the last time the data on the report has...
2012-07-16
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Using PowerPivot to Monitor Reporting Services
PowerPivot is a powerful new tool from Microsoft that has been improved even more in the 2012 release, which you...
2012-06-12
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Oracle Date issues with PowerPivot
This week I was building power pivot models for a client pulling data from Oracle. One table kept giving the...
2012-05-29
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SSIS 2012 Copy or Duplicate Environments
In SSIS 2012 there is a great new feature called environments. They can be thought of as a collection of parameters...
2012-05-07 (first published: 2012-05-02)
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How to use Report Builder 3.0
I did a webinar during the 12 days of 2012 on how to use Report Builder 3.0. In this webinar...
2012-04-16
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Execute Multiple 2008/2005 SSIS Packages with a T-SQL
If you want to execute a set of SSIS packages in SQL Server 2008 or 2005, you can do this...
2012-02-16
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Blogs
Reverse Engineering a Physical Model Diagram
By Steve Jones
I recently wrote about a logical diagram with Redgate Data Modeler. That was interesting,...
Prepping for Certification, Part 3 of ?
By Brian Kelley
After I have understood the details for a certification test (part 1), including format...
SQL Training Black Friday Deals
By Brian Kelley
If you're looking for particular "Black Friday" deals, here is what I've seen advertised...
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Do you separate data/log files and TempDB files on different disks using AWS EC2
Hello, I am receiving multiple direction on deploying SQL Servers in AWS EC2. ...
Service account being in local admin in AWS EC2 environment?
Hello, I am working with a company on their database administration. I am trying...
Don't Let Corner Cases Drive Your Design
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Don't Let Corner Cases Drive...
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A New Operator
In SQL Server 2025, what does this code return?
SELECT '1' || '0'See possible answers