Implementing Common Reference Data in a Data Warehouse
This article provides an architecture and process framework for implementing common reference data in a data-warehousing environment.
2007-12-04
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Data Warehousing
Data is at the Heart of Enterprise-Wide BI and DW, Part 3
My online series of articles has been focused on the need for businesses to "get serious" about their approach to developing an enterprise business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) capability. When pursuing this capability it is important to adopt a holistic view, followed by disciplined investment and execution.
2007-10-26
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2007-10-09
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Data Warehouse Quality Assurance Best Practices
Collaboration between IT and the business will help identify the reasonable issues versus the issues that cannot be resolved for the current release of the data warehouse.
2007-10-02
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UDF: Estimating the size of a table
In database planning and design it is essential to plan out how much HD space you are going to need to store your data. If you use BOL and do a search for "Estimating Table Size" you get three articles: - Estimating the size of a table - Estimating the size of a table with […]
2006-06-21 (first published: 2006-06-13)
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Pagination in stored procedure
You recently published a script showing how to do pagination (e.g. results 20 - 30 of 100) It's also possible to do it quicker and more elegantly without having to resort to building the sql string dynamically (never a good thing IMHO). You pass in 2 parameters, @PageIndex is the first record you want (so […]
2006-05-31 (first published: 2006-05-24)
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Generate Add Foreign Keys statements for the table
I was going through the painfull optimization of the database of creating better clustered indexes (not the default ones on the primary key).This operation was requiring removing all foreign keys to this table and then recreation them again.I created this script to optimize this quite tidious task.
2006-06-08 (first published: 2005-07-22)
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Source system pre-integration analysis
Initial analysis of a new source system can be quite time consuming to manually examine tables and columns to determine which even have worthwhile values in the first place. Running this script against the current database will generate useful information for all the columns of all the tables. Details include data types with varchar lengths, […]
2005-06-07
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Handle Divide by Zero in SQL Reporting Services
Out of the box, Reporting services does not handle divide by zero conditions gracefully. There are plenty of posting on how to use the IIF() function to accomplish this, with some rather horrific looking code. In order to simplify the coding process and make the resulting expressions readable by a mere mortal, I wrote the […]
2006-07-28 (first published: 2005-05-26)
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Drop foreign keys from a database
This script will drop all of the foreign keys on user tables in the database it is executed in. This is useful as a pre-load process.
2005-06-22 (first published: 2005-05-23)
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Question of the Day
The Range of Customers
I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers