Unlock new opportunities for data-driven decision-making by grasping the significance of SQL and structured data in current data and analytics ecosystems like Microsoft Fabric.
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This article examines how one can structure a pipeline for processing real-time data using Kafka and Informatica.
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been the de facto ETL tool for over 15 years for DBAs, Developers and Business Intelligence Professionals to extract, transform and load data (i.e. ETL tasks) for specific business processes, data-centric applications, data warehousing, reporting and data exchange between organizations. SSIS is a great product with high adoption across the globe, but has some limitations related to modern data sources, performance and streamlining tedious tasks. How can we overcome these limitations and have SSIS provide greater value?
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There are many ways to load data into a SQL Server database. In this article, Greg Moore demonstrates how to get PowerShell to do more of the work.
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There is a Power Query activity in SSIS and Azure Data Factory, which can be more useful than other tasks in some situations.
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This article will describe how to add your local timestamp at the end of the each file in Azure Data Factory (ADF). In general, ADF gets a UTC timestamp, so we need to convert the timestamp from UTC to EST, since our local time zone is EST. For example, if the input Source file name […]
2021-04-22
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Overview of ETL Architecture In a data warehouse, one of the main parts of the entire system is the ETL process. ETL is the system that reads data from the source system, transforms the data according to the business logic, and finally loads it into the warehouse. While fetching data from the sources can seem […]
2019-10-21
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On SQL Server 2025, I have a database that has this collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. I decide I want to run this code:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C*3068 and good night', '*') AS 'A Classic';
I get this error:Msg 9844, Level 16, State 4, Line 24 The char/varchar input type uses an unsupported collation. Only a UTF8 collation is supported with char/varchar input type in UNISTR function.What is the easiest way to fix this error? See possible answers