Time Dimension is an important dimension in most of the Data Warehouses, especially when requirement for keeping hours, minutes, and seconds is vital for the business. Some blog and books and articles consider time dimension as a dimension that contains date columns, but in this post I only focus on the Time part of it, Read more about Script for Creating and Generating members for Time Dimension[…]
Thank you all for attending at my presentation in TechDays 2013 Hong Kong at evening of 3rd day of conference. here you can find presentation file of my speaking session about Knowledge Driven Data Quality with DQS and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Title: Knowledge Driven Data Quality with DQS and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Description: Read more about Presentation files for Hong Kong TechDays 2013 : Knowledge Driven Data Quality with DQS and Microsoft SQL Server 2012[…]
Date Dimension can be found in every Data Warehouse, because Date dimension is one of the most important factors of each operational system that users like to view reports based on date dimension. So the importance and requirement to a date dimension persuade me to write a t-sql script to generate records for date dimension. Read more about Script for Creating and Generating members for Date Dimensions: General Purpose[…]
SSDT has an option to test connectivity of connection managers at the time of opening the SSIS package. You can change this behaviour with WORK OFFLINE option. When you have many connection managers in SSIS package, you may face a halt at the time of opening each package with a “testing connectivity” message. This will Read more about How to get rid of TESTING CONNECTIVITY at the time of Opening SSIS packages in SSDT[…]
Hi folks, Today I face a question regarding usage of OLE DB VS. ADO.NET Connection managers in SSIS, there are some blog posts about difference between connection providers and speed and performance of them. So I thought that this will be helpful if I list different Control Flow Tasks and Data Flow Components in SSIS Read more about Difference Between Connection Managers used in SSIS Control Flow Tasks and Data Flow Components[…]
Hi folks, I’ve changed the t-sql code for Capitalize function, the previous capitalize function worked only if there is one space between words, but this version works even if there be more than one space between words. with this version of Capitalize; you can run the function like this: select dbo.Capitalize(‘st charles‘) and this Read more about Capitalize Function (Version 2.0) – T-SQL[…]
T-SQL code (working in SQL Server) to replace duplicate spaces (or triple or more) with a single space is : declare @text varchar(max) set @text=’ St Charles’ while charindex(‘ ‘,@text)>0 set @text=replace(@text,’ ‘,’ ‘) select @text and the result is : St Charles
Hi folks, Today I faced a situation that I need to capitalize sentences in one column of a SQL Server database table, so I created a function to do that, I put this here to share with you. this function will change sentences like : select dbo.Capitalize(‘sample text for capitalization!‘) to : Sample Text For Capitalization! Here Read more about T-SQL Function for Capitalize Word and Sentences[…]
Hi folks, I’ll speak about Master Data Services at Microsoft Venue in Auckland on 9th of October of 2012. Session Topic and description: Managing Reference Data with Master Data Services In most of companies there are some reference data which are in use from different applications and databases, This reference data should be consistent and Read more about Speaking about Master Data Services[…]
Hi folks, I want to give you a heads up about my new course which will be presented at 15-16 of November in Auckland. Title of Course is : Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for the Oracle DBA. Registration are open now under this website: http://www.auldhouse.co.nz/courses-schedules/vendors/microsoft-technical/sql-server/microsoft-sql-server-2012-for-the-oracle-dba This is a 2 day course, and I and Dave Read more about I am Trainer of SQL Server for the Oracle DBA Course[…]