BI Thoughts and Theories

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 the advanced caching options, which puts Read More...

I use the Derived Column transform in the Data Flow a lot. In fact, I can't remember the last time I wrote a production package that didn't include at least one Derived Column transform in it. Over time, I've built up a lot of common expressions that Read More...

I ran across a forum post today that highlighted a limitation with connection managers that I wasn't aware of, so I thought I'd post it here. If you have RetainSameConnection set to TRUE, and you are also trying to update the connection string through Read More...