Useful information and case studies covering Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, and Business Intelligence

Data Warehousing Tip: Using T-SQL vs SSIS for Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) Types 1 and 2

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Here’s an example of using T-SQL to process a Slowly Changing Type 1&2 Dimension . Note:  SSIS has an SCD transform...

2013-09-11

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Data Warehousing Tip: Using T-SQL vs SSIS for Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) Types 1 and 2

• by saldeloera-1

• Useful information and case studies covering Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, and Business Intelligence

Here’s an example of using T-SQL to process a Slowly Changing Type 1&2 Dimension . Note:  SSIS has an SCD transform ,however, it does not process large dimensional datasets...

2013-09-11

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Data Warehousing Tip: T-SQL Script to Create DEFAULT Constraints by Data Type

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There is an ongoing discussion/debate regarding the handling of NULLS in a data warehouse, however, the following article by Michelle...

2013-09-11

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Data Warehousing Tip: T-SQL Script to Create DEFAULT Constraints by Data Type

• by saldeloera-1

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There is an ongoing discussion/debate regarding the handling of NULLS in a data warehouse, however, the following article by Michelle Poolet summarizes it beautifully – “consider the data warehouse...

2013-09-11

Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Tip: Useful Appliance Queries

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This post contains the following queries that support development and operational tasks within a Microsoft Parallel Data Warehousing (PDW) Appliance...

2013-04-20

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Data Warehousing Tip: Surrogate Key Generation

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If IDENTITY insert is disabled or simply not available in a particular database or a database architecture, you’ll want to...

2013-04-12

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Data Warehousing Tip: Surrogate Key Generation

• by saldeloera-1

• Useful information and case studies covering Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, and Business Intelligence

If IDENTITY insert is disabled or simply not available in a particular database or a database architecture, you’ll want to do a table based surrogate key assignment or use...

2013-04-12

SSAS How-To: Create Dynamic Time Calculations To Reuse Over Any Measure

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Rather than making individual time calculations for each measure in an SSAS cube (i.e. YTD, Prior YTD, YTD Variances, etc), one can...

2013-02-07

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SSAS How-To: Create Dynamic Time Calculations To Reuse Over Any Measure

• by saldeloera-1

• Useful information and case studies covering Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, and Business Intelligence

Rather than making individual time calculations for each measure in an SSAS cube (i.e. YTD, Prior YTD, YTD Variances, etc), one can use a more dynamic approach to time calcs applicable to all...

2013-02-07

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SSRS How-To: Simple Method to Pass MDX Multi-Select Parameters to MDX Datasets

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SSRS Tip: Simplest Method to Pass MDX Multi-Select Parameters to MDX Datasets
I recently ran across a poorly covered topic in regards...

2013-02-07

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