ETL tools are meant to be used for moving data from a source to a destination. They make life of a data warehouse or BI developer easy by providing easy to use user interfaces and many functionalities to cleanse data before loading into destination. But the situation is not always this easy, especially when moving … Continue reading Populating Data Warehouse Using SSIS
SSIS SQL Server Deployment, File System Deployment, and SSIS Package Store
SSIS packages can be stored in file system, as well as SQL Server. Let’s have a look at each one of these options for storing our SSIS packages. 1- SQL Server: When a package is deployed to SQL Server, it is actually stored in MSDB database. The easiest way to deploy a SSIS package to … Continue reading SSIS SQL Server Deployment, File System Deployment, and SSIS Package Store
Changing a Connection Manager’s Conenction String using C# – SSIS 2008
A SSIS package can be run using C#, or basically any CLR language. The piece of code depicted in the following image calls a package, tries to execute it, and prints any error or exception that occurs dutring execution of the package to output: Simple and easy! Now suppose our package has 2 connection managers: … Continue reading Changing a Connection Manager’s Conenction String using C# – SSIS 2008
Search for Objects in an instance of SQL Server
There are cases when a developer needs to look for a specific object (table, Column, etc.) inside a database. A good example of such a scenario is when you have a database that has no diagrams or PK-FK constraints assigned, and you want to find out the PK-FK relationships and how tables in the database … Continue reading Search for Objects in an instance of SQL Server
SQL Server 2000 stored procedure and SSIS 2008 OLE DB Source
What is the first thing that comes to your mind as a Microsoft BI expert, when you think of a data migration tool? Undoubtedly SSIS! As you all know, SSIS is a great tool for migrating data from legacy systems and databaseas into newer and more robust places and repositories to better serve knowledge and … Continue reading SQL Server 2000 stored procedure and SSIS 2008 OLE DB Source
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Hello and welcome folks! Here, I am going to write about some Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing stuff. Hopefully I can contribute some help to my fellow data lovers. Cheers!
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