Slowly Changing Dimensions

A Reporting System Architecture

This article describes one method of implementing a reporting system in SQL Server 2005

How to Dynamically and Iteratively Populate An Excel Workbook from SQL Server

Integration Services is a great ETL tool, allowing you to build complex and dynamic transformations. New author Marie Deschene brings us a

Bulk Import Formats

Importing Text-based data: Workbench

Robyn and Phil return with some fresh ideas about how to import text files into SQL Server, without resorting to DTS or SSIS scripting. They go on to show how much can be done in TSQL

OPENROWSET (BULK)

Parallel Processing of Large Volume ETL Jobs

ETL processing, generally involves copying/moving, transforming, cleaning the records/transactions from one or multiple sources. Most of the batch processing or warehousing projects involve such data processing in millions on daily/weekly basis. Typically, there is a Staging area and production area. Records are cleaned, transformed, filtered and verified from staging to production area. This demands SQL Set theory based queries, parallel processing with multiple processors/CPU. The article focuses on need of SQL Set theory approach and parallel processing while processing large volume of ETL records using programming approach.

Importing Poorly Formatted Text Files using SSIS

Importing text files is a common task for DBA's and Developers, but what happens when the text file is not properly formatted?

The Subsystems of ETL Revisited

These 34 subsystems cover the crucial extract, transform and load architecture components required in almost every dimensional data warehouse environment. Understanding the breadth of requirements is the first step to putting an effective architecture in place.

RE: shrink logs

Ritch, I use SQL7 and SQL2000 and i find the SQL7 to be a little buggy in this instance, it could be the setup i have here but i find quitting EM and starting again / or a refresh of the taskpad will give a more accurate result, plus it depends on the type of […]