In a typical data warehousing application, quite often during the ETL cycle you need to perform INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations on a TARGET table by matching the records from the SOURCE table. For example, a products dimension table has information a
I am planning to take the Microsoft 70-533 exam. Do you have some tips to study for this exam in order to pass it? Can you provide resources to build my skills for this exam?
I have an application that has a specified database connection that I either can't or don't want to change. However, I need to move the database to a new server. How can I do this easily without breaking other things that maybe using this connection and/o
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SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is the technology from the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack to develop Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) solutions. Over the years SSAS has evolved and has emerged as a leader in the area of analytical solutions.
Maybe I jumped the gun a bit, but I've started using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) in Visual Studio 2010. Since then I've become SSDT's biggest fan. The tool is just so much easier to use than the old VS 2010 database projects. But unfortunately, for some
Someone can bypass most of the permissions-based limitations on viewing data from a SQL instance by restoring a backup to an instance where they have system administrator privileges. One way to help prevent that from happening is to ensure that the backup
When deploying a report in SQL Server Reporting Services, I am receiving an exception error stating "Maximum request length exceeded". Read this tip to learn how to resolve this issue.
Many new employees and contractors will start looking for another job shortly after starting because the job is not aligning with what they were expecting. Learn the questions to ask to make sure the job is the right fit.
Sqlcmd is not just a script execution tool. It gives us access to internal variables and commands that we can use to automate code execution. In this tip I will show you how you can use the scripting variables.
