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Feature Flags in Data Projects

My motivation for writing this summary was an interaction with a project owner that didn’t understand why we couldn’t use feature flags directly in Power...

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Power BI: ETL or not ETL, that’s the question

ETL stands for Extract, Transform, and Load. Dennes Torres explains what an ETL tool is and isn't.…

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5 SSIS tricks you would like to know

How to make conditional decisions in a package It may seems strange the lack of a decision task for the control flow. However, there is...

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The Comeback of Migrations-Based Deployments

With database deployments, not all script-based processes are equal. Some use change scripts in a free-and-easy way, and some, which are normally called 'migrations-based approaches',...

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Documenting Your PowerShell Binary Cmdlets

Whereas it is easy to provide inline documentation for a normal scripted PowerShell cmdlet or function so as  to provide comprehensive help at the command-line...

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Optimizing Batch Process in SQL Server

SQL Server batch processes are usually run from SQL Agent in background. They can take significant time and resources, especially if they are ETL tasks....

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How to get ETL Horribly Wrong

ETL ( Extract, transform, load) doesn't have to be like a spell on hell. To make a success of ETL systems, you need the freedom...

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Data Cleaning in SQL 2012 with Data Quality Services

For data to be usefully analyzed, it must be consistent, accurate, and trustworthy. When incoming data is non-uniform, duplicated records are created and the data...

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SSIS 2012 Projects: Deployment Configurations and Monitoring

The Project Deployment Model introduced in SSIS 2012, which was explained in the first part of this series, speeds up the deployment of database projects...

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SSIS 2012 Projects: Setup, Project Creation and Deployment

It used to be that SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages had to be deployed individually. Now, they can be all deployed together from a...

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Importing Excel Data into SQL Server Via SSIS: Questions You Were Too Shy to Ask

The job of retrieving data from Excel, and importing it into SQL Server hasn't the same appeal or glamour as, for example, performing heroics with...

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Developing a Custom SSIS Source Component

SSIS was designed to be extensible. Although you can create tasks that will take data from a wide variety of sources, transform the data is...

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Book Review: Optimizing And Troubleshooting Hyper V Networking 2013

If you want to learn how to optimize and troubleshoot Hyper-V, then this book, written by Microsoft people whose day job is to assist customers...

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Collect Your SQL Server Auditing and Troubleshooting Information Automatically

If you have a number of SQL Server instances with versions ranging from 2005 upwards, with a whole host of databases, and you want to...

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SSIS Basics: Using the Merge Join Transformation

SSIS is able to take sorted data from more than one OLE DB data source and merge them into one table which can then be...

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Moving Data From Excel to SQL Server – 10 Steps to Follow

SQL Server Integration Services provide a versatile way of reading Excel files into SQL Server. A task like this illustrates the advantages of the graphical...

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Refactoring CSS with Sass and Compass

CSS is still a valuable way of specifying the rendered style of HTML objects. By using a preprocessor to assist in generating the CSS, it...

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Getting Started Testing Databases with tSQLt

There are several frameworks for assisting with the testing of SQL Server databases, but tSQLt is popular because it is written in TSQL and is...

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SSIS Basics: Using the Conditional Split

The Conditional Split can route data rows to different outputs depending on whatever criteria of the data that you wish. It works rather like the...

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Bill Baker: Geek of the Week

Bill Baker had a considerable influence on the way that SQL Server evolved to deliver reporting services and business intelligence. Until 2008, Bill Baker headed...

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