In this session, Brian shows you the basics of the SQL Server Integration Services Control Flow. He shows you how to orchestrate a package in the control flow with precedence constraints and how they relate tasks together in the control flow and how to tasks are executed and in what order. He also shows some of the advanced properties of the control flow that help with parallelism.
Planning for disaster recovery in SQL Server Analysis Services can be tricky. Fortunately SQL Server 2005 introduces the concept of a database synchronization, allowing you to transfer information and meta data from one server to another. Yaniv Mor brings us a look at this feature.
In this presentation, Ira shows you how to data profile in SSIS using a Script transform and some creative methods like RegEx. He shows you how to look for patterns in your data to find bad data that wouldn't be obvious to the eye or casual viewer.
Connecting to a SQL Server 2005 database is a simple process, but connecting to an Analysis Services 2005 database takes a bit more effort. Longtime data warehousing author Jacob Sebastian brings us a quick tutorial on how you can connect from Management Studio.
In this demonstration, you'll quickly learn how to create a basic cube using the Cube Wizard upon a data warehouse. Brian walks through the entire process in this 10 minute video to get you started with creating a browsing a cube.
In this first video of the series, you'll learn what SQL Server Integration Services does and a little about the environment. After you see this video you should be able to understand much of the terminology and toolset that SSIS developers use.
Having a consistent SQL Server environment is important. Gregory Larsen discusses one method of scripting your installation to ensure all of your SQL Server 2005 machines are set up the same.
This article looks at logging your database changes from a developer's perspective.
The Maintenance Plan Wizard is a graphical interface for creating a variety of database housekeeping tasks. This article focuses on using SQL Server 2005 Maintenance Plan Wizard for creating Database Backup operations.
A view is most commonly thought of as a SELECT statement. Most developers will simply create a view to "group" complex SELECT statements for reuse within another view or stored procedures. It makes typing easier! But the really power of views is their ability to implement business rules.
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