BI Thoughts and Theories

I was on the CodePlex ( www.codeplex.com ) site today looking for the Analysis Services Stored Procedure project, and found that they have a number of SQL Server related projects available. First, all of the SQL Server samples have been uploaded to the Read More...

This is another example package. This one retrieves a resultset and stores it in a variable. It then uses a data flow with a custom script source to read each row of the resultset and output it as a delimited string. Why would you want to do this? Well, Read More...

Update: Kirk Haselden has a great example of this that I found right after I posted this. http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/knight_reign/archive/2005/03/25/9588.aspx There's been a number of questions about iterating through a collection of items and performing Read More...

A question came up recently on the SSIS forums on translating lookup codes into a description within the data flow. That is, given code "A", how do you translate it into a more descriptive value, such as "Apple"? As a general rule of thumb, if the the Read More...

A question came up today on the SSIS forum about processing flat files that included header and detail information. The poster wanted to send header information to one destination and detail information to another. The header rows have 2 columns, the Read More...

Welcome. I'm John Welch, a managing consultant with Mariner ( www.mariner-usa.com ), a business intelligence consulting firm in North Carolina. I'm starting this blog to record some of my random thoughts about BI and data warehousing. I have a background Read More...