For those who don’t know, I’m currently the Data Warehouse Architect for a large scale and complex multi-tenant data warehousing project. Fortunately, the project is being created in SQL Server 2012 and I thrilled to be using the new features. Let me preface this blog post by admitting that my experience with using the SSIS [...]
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I’m in for a busy week as I have back to back presentations this Wednesday and Thursday nights. On Wednesday the 20th, the Forth Worth SQL Server User Group has asked me to present one of my favorites. I’m constantly revising this presentation as I encounter as I come across new mistakes to share. So, [...] Every time I attend SQL Saturdays I am re-energized, and SQL Saturday 163 BI Edition was no different. This one was particularly special because of my precon presentation, “Data Warehousing In a Day”. I just love getting up in front of a group and teaching and it’s obvious when to the attendees. If all of [...] Recently I’ve received several emails with the same basic theme. I was sought out because I am a Business Intelligence Consultant and they want to know whether the career would be good for them. Well, it’s hard to read a short synopsis of someone’s experience and recommend a life altering directional change. So, I decided [...] We often hear of the ability of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to leverage multithreading to increase performance. However, multithreading in the control flow, executing two or more packages simultaneously, is what usually comes to mind. I recently ran into an issue with a large data set that I needed to multithread in the data [...] This is a quick script which creates a table consisting of State Names and their corresponding Abbreviations. I use this table when doing basic data quality checking and also standardizing state designations. CREATE TABLE dbo.StateLookup If you found your way to my blog, the chances are good that you consider yourself a Junior DBA. The chances are also good that you’re wrong. I can hear you saying right now, “Damn, you’re good, how do you know all that?” Well, I’m glad you asked. Perceptions I still remember my first SQL Server [...] While troubleshooting an existing 2008 R2 package the other day I received the following error. Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. The error occurred when I was using breakpoints and watch windows to diagnose problems in the package. The breakpoint behavior was off because even when there wasn’t a [...] One of the cool kids, Thomas LaRock (Blog/Twitter), has started a new community blogging game called Meme Monday. My friend John Sterrett (Blog/Twitter) tagged me this morning, and my attempt is below. SSIS work is not good for your self-esteem on Monday morning. These things spread like wildfire, so I’m not sure who’s been tagged and [...] |
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