Generating Files through bcp Utility in SQL Server
In this post I would like to show how anyone can easily generate files (CSV, XML, TXT and more) through the use of bcp utility on Microsoft SQL Server. This technique can be easily incorporated into an...
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Implementing Self-Service Geospatial BI with Tableau Public, Google Fusion...
Every now and again, when I want to display the data visually and do so quickly, I wish I had some more sophisticated tools at my disposal. Staple Excel and SSRS functionality is pretty good out of the...
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Twitter Data Analysis using Microsoft SQL Server, C#, SSIS, SSAS and Excel
With the advent of social media which inadvertently seems to be penetrating more and more aspects of our lives, BI is also starting to look at the values it can derive from it. There are many providers...
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Which One Should I Use – NOT EXISTS, NOT IN, OUTER APPLY, EXCEPT and LEFT...
Introduction Lately I’ve been involved in a large enterprise data warehouse deployment project and the in last few weeks we have been at a point where we’ve slowly begun transitioning from dimension...
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Speeding up SQL Server Data Warehouse Architecture With Automation Procedures...
Note: all code used in this post can be viewed and downloaded from my publicly accessible OneDrive folder HERE. Most skilled BI/DW professionals, when planning and scoping to deliver a new data...
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SQL Server Hash-Partitioned Parallel Data Acquisition – How to Accelerate...
Introduction Note: All artifacts used in this demo can be downloaded from my shared OneDrive folder HERE. Big part of Data Warehouse development has always been tied to structuring data acquisition...
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Kicking The Tires On Azure Functions – How To Build Simple Event-Driven Or...
Introduction There are many ways to skin the cat when it comes to using public cloud services to solve business problems, so understanding pros and cons of each can often make a big difference....
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Tackling Data-Intensive Workloads with Azure Batch – Elastic, On-Demand and...
Introduction As a data domain architect (amongst many other hats I wear these days), I sometimes find it difficult to recommend a public cloud service which can fulfill all my clients’ needs without...
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Data Build Tool (DBT) – The Emerging Standard For Building SQL-First Data...
In Part 1 of this series, I went over the high-level introduction to dbt, stood up a small development SQL Server database in Azure, acquired a sample size of Google Analytics data to populate a few...
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Kicking the tires On tSQLt – An Open-Source Unit Testing Framework for SQL...
Introduction The importance of unit testing does not have to be conveyed to most database developers and data engineers – it’s common knowledge that testing should be an integral part of any project...
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