Monthly Archives: May 2008

How to implement cascading parameters in a SQL Services Reporting Services MDX Report

Background Last week, I needed to prototype a report against an Analysis Services 2005 cube for a client.  The report wasn’t too complicated… I just had the requirement to allow a user to drill down a hierarchy by selecting a … Continue reading

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See if a File is Locked

A question that comes up occasionally on the forums is how to determine if a file is being written to by another process. It can cause issues if a file is partially written when a source component starts extracting data … Continue reading

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Presentation at the Triad SQL Server User Group

On May 15th I’ll be presenting at the Triad SQL Server User Group, located in High Point, NC. The presentation will be focusing on new features in SQL Server 2008 for business intelligence and data warehousing. If you’re in the … Continue reading

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SSIS 2008 – Incrementally Updating the Lookup Cache File

There are a number of new features in the 2008 Lookup Transform. Jamie Thomson posted a good overview of the features, and I recommend reading it prior to this article. One of the new features in SSIS 2008 is the … Continue reading

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Setting the Lookup Query With an Expression

In SSIS 2005, one of the challenges with the Lookup transform was that the SQL used to populate the cache was fixed at design time. You could dynamically pass in parameters to the SQL, but only if you turned on … Continue reading

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