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Ray Barley

Ray is a Principal Architect at RDA Corporation focused on SQL Server and Business Intelligence. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) in Business Intelligence, a MSSQLTips.com BI Expert and Ambassador. He is also a co-author of the book: SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Unleashed.

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2008 Awards
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Analysis Services Administration

Using the SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Deployment Wizard (11/18/2009)

Analysis Services Development

Build a Cube From an Existing Data Source Using SQL Server Analysis Services (7/2/2008)
Build Integrated SQL Server Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft Office (3/26/2009)
DirectQuery Mode in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services (SSAS) Tabular (4/11/2013)
How To Build a Cube Without a Data Source Using SQL Server Analysis Services (6/27/2008)
How To Enable User Defined Hierarchies in SQL Server Analysis Services SSAS (6/16/2009)

Analysis Services Dimensions

Built in Time Dimension and Time Intelligence in SQL Server Analysis (3/13/2008)
Handle Weeks that Overlap Years in a SQL Server Date Dimension (1/29/2008)

Analysis Services Measure Groups

How To Define Measure Group Partitions in SQL Server Analysis Services SSAS (7/28/2008)
How To Implement Proactive Caching in SQL Server Analysis Services SSAS (8/15/2008)

Analysis Services Security

Application Development

How To Create an ADO.NET Data Access Utility Class for SQL Server (7/25/2013)
How to Use a Linked Server in a SQL Server Database Project (9/10/2014)

Change Data Capture

How to Enable Change Tracking in a SQL Server Database Project (8/26/2014)
Process Change Data Capture in SQL Server Integration Services (5/20/2009)
Using Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008 (4/10/2008)

Database Mirroring

Simple Steps to Prepare Mirror Database for Mirroring in SQL Server (6/6/2012)

Encryption

SQL Server 2008 Transparent Data Encryption getting started (6/6/2008)

Entity Framework

How to Implement Native SQL Server Queries with the Entity Framework (4/27/2010)
How to Use SQL Server DML Stored Procedures with the Entity Framework (3/26/2010)
How to Use SQL Server Views with the Entity Framework (4/22/2010)
Intro to Entity Framework with SQL Server (3/16/2010)

Express Edition

Introduction to SQL Server Express 2008 R2 (5/26/2010)

FILESTREAM

Using FILESTREAM to Store BLOBs in the NTFS File System in SQL Server 2008 (5/1/2008)

Identities

SQL Server 2012 Sequence Numbers (3/29/2011)

Integration Services Analysis Services Tasks

Analysis Services Processing Task in SQL Server Integration Services SSIS (8/12/2008)
Handle Early Arriving Facts in SQL Server Integration Services SSIS (3/3/2008)
Handle Slowly Changing Dimensions in SQL Server Integration Services (2/26/2008)
SQL Server Integration Services SSIS Analysis Services Execute DDL Task (8/7/2008)

Integration Services Configuration Options

How to Manage SSIS Packages Stored in Multiple SQL Server Database Instances (7/13/2010)
How To Support Multiple SQL Server Package Configurations in SSIS (8/8/2012)
SQL Server Integration Services SSIS Package Configuration (1/3/2008)
Using a SQL Server Alias for SSIS Package Configuration Database Connection String (8/10/2011)
Using XML Package Configurations with Integration Services SSIS (2/14/2008)

Integration Services Control Flow Transformations

Get List of Files from an FTP Server in SQL Server Integration Services (12/8/2008)

Integration Services Data Flow Transformations

Integration Services Development

How To Implement Batch Processing in SQL Server Integration Services SSIS (5/22/2008)
How To Use Transactions in SQL Server Integration Services SSIS (9/17/2008)
Integration Services Checkpoints to restart package from failure (1/9/2008)
Programmatically Drop and Recreate Foreign Keys with SSIS (8/5/2011)
SQL Server Integration Services Tutorial (5/17/2011)

Integration Services Error Handling

Custom Logging in SQL Server Integration Services SSIS (1/22/2008)

Integration Services Excel

Retrieve Excel Schema Using SQL Integration Services SSIS (1/27/2009)

Integration Services Execute Package Options

DTEXEC Command Line Parameters Using Command Files (8/10/2009)
How To Execute an Integration Services (SSIS) Package from a SQL Server Stored Procedure (7/2/2013)

Integration Services Oracle

Execute PLSQL Code in an Oracle Package from SSIS (3/5/2008)
Export SQL Server Data to Oracle using SSIS (5/18/2010)
Oracle Parameterized Queries in SQL Integration Services SSIS (7/6/2009)

Integration Services Security

Get Active Directory Users and Groups with SQL Server Integration Services (1/2/2009)
Securing Your SSIS Packages Using Package Protection Level (8/17/2010)

Monitoring

Introduction to Utility Control Points in SQL Server 2008 R2 (9/15/2010)
Storing Windows Performance Counter Values in SQL Server (5/26/2011)

Performance Point

Create a Member Selection Dashboard Filter in Performance Point Server 2007 (4/3/2008)
Creating a Scorecard in PerformancePoint Server 2007 (PPS) (3/26/2008)
Creating an Analytic Grid Report in Performance Point Server 2007 (3/19/2008)
Time Intelligence Post Formula Filter Template in Performance Point Server (9/11/2008)

Performance Tuning

How To Collect Performance Data With TYPEPERF.EXE (9/3/2008)
Introduction to SQLDIAG for SQL Server Performance Monitoring and Tuning (10/21/2009)
SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor for Performance Tuning (11/3/2009)

Policy Based Management

Using Policy Based Management in SQL Server 2008 (5/6/2008)

PowerShell

PowerShell Support in SQL Server 2008 with the Invoke Sqlcmd Cmdlet (2/10/2009)

Reporting Services Administration

Remove a SQL Server Reporting Services Report from Cache Using RS.EXE (5/12/2008)

Reporting Services Analysis Services

Building Calculated Members for a SSRS Report using MDX (4/27/2011)

Reporting Services Charts

Getting Started with Data Bars in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services (12/22/2010)
Getting Started with Sparklines in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services (12/28/2010)

Reporting Services Configuration

How To Enable Caching in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) (1/11/2010)

Reporting Services Data Sources

SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services ATOM Data Feeds (10/19/2010)
Working with Report Snapshots in SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS (1/18/2010)

Reporting Services Development

How to launch an SSRS report in a browser window from a .NET application (8/12/2013)

Reporting Services Dynamic Reports

Reporting Services Functions

SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Lookup Functions (10/25/2010)

Reporting Services Images

Rendering images from a database on SSRS reports (6/20/2013)

Reporting Services Maps

Maps in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services (11/29/2010)

Reporting Services Monitoring

Analyze Report Execution and Usage Statistics in SQL Server Reporting Services (12/24/2009)

Reporting Services Parameters

Reporting Services Report Builder

Getting Started with Report Builder 3.0 Shared Datasets (1/11/2011)
Getting Started with Report Parts in SQL Server Report Builder 3.0 (1/31/2011)
Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 (2/18/2009)
SQL Server Report Builder Tutorial (7/12/2011)

Reporting Services SharePoint

Integrating SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services with SharePoint 2010 (9/28/2010)

Reporting Services Subreports

SSRS Report Parts Versus Sub Reports FAQ (2/24/2011)
Working with a Parent Child Hierarchy in SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS (2/10/2010)

Reporting Services Tutorials

SQL Server Reporting Services Tutorial (5/24/2011)

Sharepoint

Accessing SharePoint Lists with SQL Server Integration Services SSIS 2005 (4/20/2009)
Best Practices for SharePoint Content Databases in SQL Server (6/22/2009)
Best Practices for SharePoint Content Databases in SQL Server (1/22/2010)
Best Practices for SharePoint Search Databases (7/15/2009)
Configure Reporting Services to Run in SharePoint Integrated Mode (10/29/2008)
How To Call a SharePoint Web Service from a SQL Server CLR Function (7/23/2008)
How To Migrate SharePoint 2007 My Sites Databases to SharePoint 2010 (5/3/2012)
Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for SQL Servers DBAs (2/2/2012)
Managing SharePoint Content Databases with Central Administration (2/23/2012)
Managing SharePoint Content Databases with PowerShell (2/8/2012)
SharePoint 2010 Databases Maintenance Health Analyzer Rules (3/21/2012)
Using a SharePoint List as a Data Source in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (7/22/2010)

Source Control

Introduction to Team Foundation Server (TFS) Build for Business Intelligence (BI) Projects (4/23/2015)

Stored Procedures

How To Return a Result Set from a SQL Server 2005 CLR Stored Procedure (6/12/2008)

Synonyms

Use Synonyms to Abstract the Location of SQL Server Database Objects (8/20/2009)

T-SQL

Introduction to Data Tier Applications in SQL Server 2008 R2 (8/27/2010)

Table Valued Parameters

Using Table Valued Parameters (TVP) in SQL Server 2008 (4/23/2008)

Testing

How to Setup Boot from VHD for a SQL Server test or development environment (3/15/2011)

Tools

Introduction to SQL Server Data Tools (11/6/2012)
SQL Server Data Tools Connected Database Development (12/6/2012)

Triggers

Maximum stored procedure, function, trigger or view nesting level exceeded limit 32 (3/23/2009)

XML

Replacing OPENXML with the XML nodes() Function in SQL Server 2005 (10/21/2008)

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