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
793 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
557 reads
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
491 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
975 reads
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
996 reads
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
1,528 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)
4,657 reads
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)
11,146 reads
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Sql script replace and rearrange numbers
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...