Author: Reza Rad

Reza Rad is a Microsoft Regional Director, an Author, Trainer, Speaker and Consultant. He has a BSc in Computer engineering; he has more than 20 years’ experience in data analysis, BI, databases, programming, and development mostly on Microsoft technologies. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP for 12 continuous years (from 2011 till now) for his dedication in Microsoft BI. Reza is an active blogger and co-founder of RADACAD. Reza is also co-founder and co-organizer of Difinity conference in New Zealand, Power BI Summit, and Data Insight Summit. Reza is author of more than 14 books on Microsoft Business Intelligence, most of these books are published under Power BI category. Among these are books such as Power BI DAX Simplified, Pro Power BI Architecture, Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star, Power Query books series, Row-Level Security in Power BI and etc. He is an International Speaker in Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Data Insight Summit, PASS Summit, SQL Saturday and SQL user groups. And He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Reza’s passion is to help you find the best data solution, he is Data enthusiast. His articles on different aspects of technologies, especially on MS BI, can be found on his blog: https://radacad.com/blog.

My Submitted Sessions for SqlBits 10

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Reza Rad

Dear folks, I’ve submitted two sessions in SqlBits 10, with these topics: SSIS Programming; SSIS Can Do Everything! Boost SSIS power with XML Topics are in one hour sessions details of each topic are : SSIS Programming; SSIS Can Do Everything! Level: 400 Description: SSIS is a RAD tool and many SSIS Developers only need Read more about My Submitted Sessions for SqlBits 10[…]

Regular Expression in SSIS

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Reza Rad

Regular Expressions are very useful expressions for text processing there are many usages like validation a text against a pattern or find appropriate parts of text with defined patterns which can be solved with Regular Expressions. To find out more about Regular Expressions read here. Today I find a simple case of such things in Read more about Regular Expression in SSIS[…]

Notify Operator Task – SSIS

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Reza Rad

Messaging is one of the most useful features of SSIS. Actually if you want to make a robust and fault tolerant package you need to design logging on errors and warnings properly. there are some options for send notifications in SSIS; Send Mail Task, Script Task ( scripting exactly any type of message ) and Read more about Notify Operator Task – SSIS[…]

My Contribution in SQL Server MVP Deep Dive Volume 2

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Reza Rad

Finally the SQL Server MVP Deep Dive Volume 2 going to be available soon . This book is all about SQL Server, but not an ordinal book about SQL Server from begin to end or on special aspect of SQL Server. This book covers 5 major topics of SQL Server ( Architecture and Design, Administration, Read more about My Contribution in SQL Server MVP Deep Dive Volume 2[…]

T-SQL Gregorian To Persian Converter

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Reza Rad

There are lots of times which you need a "Gregorian to Persian ( Shamsi ) Converter" in t-sql. below code will convert gregorian date string for example 2011-08-25 to persian or shamsi date string for example 1390-06-03 . just note this code will work on sql server 2005 or above because I used the Floor Read more about T-SQL Gregorian To Persian Converter[…]

I will Speak at SqlBits

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Reza Rad

I will speak at SqlBits 9 At Liverpool about "Programming SSIS" The SqlBits 9 will start from 29 September to 1 October 2011 at Liverpool Adelphi Hotel. Full Agenda of event listed here. My Speaking session is at Saturday, 1st of October at 10:50 AM, with the "Programming SSIS" title. this is a short overview Read more about I will Speak at SqlBits[…]

How To Run Dynamic T-SQL In SSIS OLE DB Command

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Reza Rad

Using dynamic t-sql is one of the good abilities in SQL Server, and there are times which you need to do this in SSIS. Suppose you have a data stream in SSIS Data flow task and you want to run a dynamic t-sql query per each data row values, probably your first stop is OLE Read more about How To Run Dynamic T-SQL In SSIS OLE DB Command[…]

SSIS 2011 Denali Expression Task

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Reza Rad

SSIS Denali 2011 CTP 3 released at 12 July 2011, you can get it from here, If you try SSIS Denali you will see a new task in Control flow, named Expression Task. In this post I’ll talk about the Expression Task; Expression Task created to do assignment on package variables or parameters. you can Read more about SSIS 2011 Denali Expression Task[…]

SSIS Upsert With Lookup Transform

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Reza Rad

This is a very common question everywhere; how can I check if data is exists in destination table then update it, otherwise insert new records. This Scenario named Upsert in common ( Update / Insert ), there are lots of ways to do it, but in this post I’ll describe how to do it with Read more about SSIS Upsert With Lookup Transform[…]

My Submitted Sessions to SqlBits

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Reza Rad

Dear friends, I’ve submitted two sessions at http://www.sqlbits.com for 29th September to 1st October 2011 at Liverpool. sessions are open to vote already, and you can vote any sessions you like, for voting you can go here and vote from 108 sessions. my submitted sessions are : Programming SSIS SSIS Programming seems to be a Read more about My Submitted Sessions to SqlBits[…]

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