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SSIS Configurations At Design Time
There’s an interesting “behavior” that occurs with configurations at design time. The value of the configuration will be saved in your package as the new stored value. I’d seen this before, but never really thought about it, until a poster … Continue reading
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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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Renaming the Script Project in SSIS 2008
I found something interesting in SSIS 2008 today, and thought I’d share it. I was working with David Darden on a package that included a script task. In 2008, the Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) environment is used to … Continue reading
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MDX Filters in PPS Monitor
I had a question on how to implement MDX Filters in PerformancePoint Monitor awhile back. Nick Barclay provided an answer here. Some samples Nick provided were: 1: [Time].[Fiscal Year].Children and 1: DESCENDANTS( 2: [Geography].[Geography].[All Geographies] 3: ,[Geography].[Geography].[Country] 4: ,SELF_AND_BEFORE) Depending … Continue reading
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David Darden’s Blog
One of my colleagues, David Darden, has started blogging on www.agilebi.com. He’s been working with the Microsoft BI stack for several years now, and has a lot of great knowledge to share. His first post is on using the PerformancePoint … Continue reading
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Creating a Scorecard Transform in PerformancePoint Server Monitor
Overview I’ve spent a couple of days doing some prototyping around PerformancePoint Monitor… there have been a few things that I’ve wanted to accomplish, so when the PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK was released, it seemed like the way to do it. … Continue reading
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