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all groups > sql server data warehouse > december 2006

Best Practice for Statistical Data Organization in databases
Posted by Beth at 12/26/2006 1:04:01 PM
I'm completely new to databases. What is the best practice for organizing statistical data in a database? I have 400+ parameters for 185 countries for 20+ years each. How many tables should I use and how should they be structured (e.g. countries in rows, years in columns, etc). Thanks!...more >>


Data migration from Mainframe to SQL Server
Posted by cjeffwang NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 12/24/2006 4:33:48 PM
Is there an easy way to migrate the mainframe databases, e.g. ServiceCenter P4 or Model 204 to SQL Server. In general, they all can be called relational databases, but the data can not be migrated easily by using the database utility tools. Other than transfering to text or Excel, then to ...more >>

For/Next loop to process INSERT INTO statement
Posted by Doctorjones_md at 12/19/2006 11:48:52 AM
I reposted this because I was unable to achieve desired results from previous recommendations. Previous Post: =================== I have the following code which does the following: 1. Deletes all rows having a value of "0" in column C 2. Uploads the data in Row 2 to my SQL Server Wh...more >>

ETL - cancel changes and going back to a previous state
Posted by Chris Le Roquais at 12/18/2006 10:43:40 PM
Hi there, I would like to know if this is a usual practice to having an ETL able to cancel (rollback) the move of data that has been done into a destination. In other words, after having inserted data into a destination, can we go back to a previous state? Is that common to do that? How t...more >>

UDM approach/concept in real
Posted by Marcel Sottnik at 12/6/2006 1:52:49 PM
Hi NG Everyone talks about UDM and consolidating heterogenous datasources (OLTP, OLAP, flatfiles) into one cube and one dimensional model. However, I didn't find any example of such an implementation. Could someone provide us with something like that? BG Marcel...more >>

SSIS Performance Issue
Posted by Frank at 12/5/2006 8:00:23 PM
Hi Experts, We used SSIS as ETL tool to design our first data mart. One of our SSIS package is trying to load data from one Oracle DB to another Oracle DB (no any data transformations, and using Native OLEDB\MS OLEDB Provider for Oracle). The total rows is around 3 millions. But it took foreve...more >>



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