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SQL Server 2000 stored procedure and SSIS 2008 OLE DB Source
What is the first thing that comes to your mind as a Microsoft BI expert, when you think of a data migration tool? Undoubtedly SSIS! As you all know, SSIS is a great tool for migrating data from legacy...
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Search for Objects in an instance of SQL Server
There are cases when a developer needs to look for a specific object (table, Column, etc.) inside a database. A good example of such a scenario is when you have a database that has no diagrams or PK-FK...
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Changing a Connection Manager’s Conenction String using C# – SSIS 2008
A SSIS package can be run using C#, or basically any CLR language. The piece of code depicted in the following image calls a package, tries to execute it, and prints any error or exception that occurs...
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SSIS SQL Server Deployment, File System Deployment, and SSIS Package Store
SSIS packages can be stored in file system, as well as SQL Server. Let’s have a look at each one of these options for storing our SSIS packages. 1- SQL Server: When a package is deployed to SQL Server,...
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Populating Data Warehouse Using SSIS
ETL tools are meant to be used for moving data from a source to a destination. They make life of a data warehouse or BI developer easy by providing easy to use user interfaces and many functionalities...
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Spliting records into multiple rows using SSIS Script Component
Hi folks. This is a post in response to Add Interim Rows Depending on Max and Min Values question asked in MSDN SSIS Forum, but it could be applied to any similar situation and problem. HEre I am gonna...
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Making SSRS reports faster: get rid of Parameter Sniffing
Is your SSRS report running slowly? Are you using a stored procedure to pull the data and pass them to report? If your answer to these questions is yes, then you are a victim of SQL Server’s Parameter...
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Improve your SSIS package’s performance
Hello everyone. I spent almost the whole last week and the first 2 days of this week trying to improve my BI solutions’ performance. In my quest on learning the tricks to make my package faster, I came...
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Get tables and their data without backing up the database: SQL Server 2008 R2
There may be situations when you want to get all of the tables in a SQL Server database and the data they currently hold, but you can’t (because of permissions assigned to your account, for example) or...
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SSIS, Tempdb Database, and SQL Server Log Files
The tempdb system database is a global resource that is available to all users connected to the instance of SQL Server. Tempdb is re-created every time SQL Server is started, which means the system...
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Drop failed for DatabaseRole : The database principal owns a schema in the...
This error is raised when there is a schema owned by the role you are trying to drop. The most straight forward and quick fix for this error is to revert the schema ownership to the appropriate role in...
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SQL Server 2014 and SSDT (AKA BIDS)
Hey folks. This is going to be a short post, just wanted to mention something that may come handy for those who are interested in play with SQL Server 2014. I downloaded SQL Server 2014 a couple of...
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An alternative for Index with Include: CLUSTERED (UNIQUE) Index
Indexes are good and helpful for reading from the tables and one can add different indexes based on any kind of queries that are going to be issued against the tables and make sure they always hit...
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OBIEE: Multiple joins between same tables (Fact to Dim)
Hi all. I am finally writing a new post after more than 1 year and surprisingly it is not on SQL Server! I must confess that I am not a front-end kinda person and do not particularly enjoy doing...
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OBIEE RPD Design: Convert Snowflake to Star schema from multiple sources in...
As I play more with OBIEE, I learn more about what it is capable of and where its main power resides. OBIEE has 3 layers: Physical, Business Model and Mapping, and Presentation. The middle layer, BMM,...
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