Tim Mitchell

My New Favorite Demo Dataset: Dunder Mifflin Data

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Those of us who write technical articles and deliver technical presentations are always on the lookout for the perfect data set for demonstration and testing. Microsoft has done a...

2020-08-06

Reusing a Recordset in an SSIS Object Variable

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A few years back, I wrote a blog post about using an SSIS object variable as a data flow source. In that post, I described how you could load...

2020-07-30

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The What, Why, When, and How of Incremental Loads

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When moving data in an extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) process, the most efficient design pattern is to touch only the data you must, copying just the data that...

2020-08-05 (first published: 2020-07-23)

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Comparing SSIS and Azure Data Factory

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For the better part of 15 years, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been the go-to enterprise extract-transform-load (ETL) tool for shops running on Microsoft SQL Server. More recently,...

2020-07-28 (first published: 2020-07-16)

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The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure

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I’m happy to announce the publication of my latest book. The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure is now available on Amazon in both...

2020-07-13

SSIS Parameters

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SSIS parameters help to ease the process of passing runtime values to SSIS packages. For values that can change over time, using parameters in SSIS is an ideal means...

2020-07-14 (first published: 2020-07-02)

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Secure Your Data Prep Area

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I’ve been building ETL processes for many years, and I’ve learned two universal truths: data preparation is messy, and you must always secure your data prep area. A data...

2020-06-18

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Lessons from Iowa’s Caucus Debacle

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Earlier this week, the state of Iowa held its caucuses to choose each political party’s nominee for November’s presidential election. Being the first state in each election cycle to...

2020-02-11 (first published: 2020-02-06)

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Using the JOIN Function in Reporting Services

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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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Using the JOIN Function in Reporting Services

• by Tim Mitchell

• Tim Mitchell

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