Script to Populate Date Dimension, without Using a Cursor
Most of the scripts I've used to populate date dimension uses a cursor. Since data is loaded only once to...
2013-01-22
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Samuel Vanga
Script to Populate Date Dimension, without Using a Cursor
Most of the scripts I’ve used to populate date dimension uses a cursor. Since data is loaded only once to...
2013-01-22
819 reads
SQL Server Views
This post is first of yet to come long series on basic concepts of SQL Server. I’ll begin with basic...
2013-01-22
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Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues
Standards and best practices are like flu shots you take before you're infected; Database best practices protect your databases from...
2013-01-15
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Scripts to Detect Data Warehouse Issues
Standards and best practices are like flu shots you take before you’re infected; Database best practices protect your databases from...
2013-01-15
498 reads
Every ebook from Apress for $15
Query Performance Tuning. Grant Fritchey. $15. If this doesn’t excite you, nothing will. Apress is offering every e-book for just $15...
2012-11-26
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PASS SQL Saturday World Map
I had the pleasure of helping Karla Landrum (@Karlakay22) for the PASS Summit 2012 by creating two dashboards: SQL Saturday...
2012-11-20
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PASS Summit 2012 Twitter Dashboard
As a business intelligence developer, my skills include taking the raw data, shaking it to remove all the junk, and...
2012-11-12
1,533 reads
Create Several Shell SSIS Packages In Minutes Using BIML
What do i mean by shell packages? You’re spot on – that’s an excellent question to begin with. For the purpose...
2012-10-22 (first published: 2012-10-16)
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Generate Uniqueidentifier with SSIS
If you are trying to generate Uniqueidentifier/Newid() in SSIS data flow, you will soon realize that there is no out-of-the-box...
2012-10-16 (first published: 2012-10-10)
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Blogs
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Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
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A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
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Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers