Absolutely helpful. Those are some really important details that I didn't include in the article.

Funny thing about writing this kind of article, you keep thinking of other details that should...

While I do understand and agree that of course an OLAP db will have a date table, we are missing the point here. This is clearly a transactional system and...

Not that the data needs are huge, but Tennis has pretty extensive database needs. About 9 years ago I helped build the USTA database which they distribute around the country...

Thanks for sharing this one. We're trying to institute a number of security policies on laptops within our organization and we've been meeting resistance, especially from development. Having stories like...

It's on the Properties tab of the OLE DB Source in Custom Properties section.

We found that loading data to Oracle from SSIS only worked well when we used the...

Second question first. How did Oracle process the query correctly? I haven't a clue. It's optimizer must work in a different way, logically, than SQL Servers. As to the first quest,...

Hmmm... Interesting.

A couple of problems though. I wanted to get a list of values that exist in one table and not the other. I also tried running it with the...

Amen on the aliasing brother.

We've been reviewing some code from developers that not only didn't use aliasing, but used table names instead. Unfortunately they didn't even do that consistently so...

That's how I "solved" the problem when it was first presented to me. I couldn't read it in a way that made sense with the old syntax so I rewrote...

Doggone it. I was looking through Itzik's stuff for answer. I guess I didn't dig deep enough. Thanks for posting that.

Itzik's one of the minor dieties around my shop ever...

Setting AlwaysUseDefaultCodePath="TRUE" will cause this error to go away.

Yeah, I knew that. Just included it as information. BTW, it only occurred using the MS driver, not with any of the...

Thanks. That makes more sense than any other explanation I've been able to come up with.

It simply returns the anticipated results, which is only those rows that don't match. Precisely how... you need to ask someone that understands Oracle. I think Scott Coleman's answers have been...

A lot of it, unfortunately not all of it, comes from Oracle people. But even Oracle is starting down the path of eliminating the old style syntax. If you go...

Because of the left join, you would get values that are null, despite the fact that there were no null values in the table. It's not dissimilar to the query...