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all groups > sql server data warehouse > march 2007

ETL tables advice
Posted by Stephanie at 3/29/2007 3:24:01 PM
We have a fairly large BI database on SQL Server 2005. The whole thing takes up just short of a terabyte right now. This is a project that was started before I came along and of course I have now inherited it. Currently we have EVERYTHING in one database. The ETL tables, the ETL stored p...more >>


Design datawarehouse schema
Posted by locusta74ster NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 3/26/2007 8:54:29 AM
Hi, I need to design a datawarehouse for the manufacturing industry. I'm sure that this has been done a dozen times, and I was wondering if there are workgroups where I can find a sample schema, reports and others? Looking forward to your reply, Dirk ...more >>

copying data oracle2sql
Posted by Ramunas Balukonis at 3/23/2007 5:10:56 PM
Hi, I discovered that copying data from oracle using "openquery" with linked server is sevaral time slower that using "dtsexecui" (dts import/export wzard). I used the same query for both methods. Does anybode has expirience solving slowly openquery behaviour? My linked server has "allow in proc...more >>

data warehouse truncate question
Posted by Mike at 3/20/2007 12:27:24 PM
have an SSIS project and I have a package that drops and creates the database, creates tables, then I have a package that loads the data into the data warehouse. Now, I got the request in to only load the data and not drop and create the database every time the package runs due to the package is...more >>

Data transfer between sql server 2000 databases
Posted by Balaji at 3/16/2007 9:11:03 AM
I have a SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition database TestDB1 with 23 tables that gets populated by replication from a mainframe server. (Inserts, Updates, Deletes) Now we have to move the data from TestDB1 to TestDB2 on the same SQL Server machine. (Same instance of SQL Server) TestDB2 will...more >>

dimension question
Posted by John at 3/15/2007 12:00:00 AM
I'm creating a datawarehouse and I have a question on a date dimension. My users want to see the date formatted as such yyyy-mm-dd so they can sort on it. How can something like this be possible? I never did this so I'm new to the datawarehouse - cubes - dimension things. ...more >>

how does ado.net SqlDataReader.GetString() know which encoding to read the
Posted by Daniel at 3/7/2007 5:25:57 PM
how does ado.net SqlDataReader.GetString() know which encoding to read the data into a string as? Does sql sever set this at the column data type level, server wide encoding setting, os encoding? ...more >>

Using addextendedproperty in DB for documentation
Posted by Joe at 3/7/2007 11:55:41 AM
We are using Kimball templates to model our Dimension/Fact schemas in an = Excel sheet. It allows us to captre extra columns per row such as, = "Source System", "Source Table", "Source Field Name", etc. Then it = generates a script to run in t-sql to create the given table with the = column na...more >>



Joining cubes
Posted by Gilgamesh at 3/6/2007 6:50:02 PM
I have three cubes in AS. How can I have a separate cube which can retrieve data from these three cubes and then (similar to join function in T-SQL) can join the results? Thanks, Gilgamesh ...more >>

Cannot insert rows to fact table and processing does not end
Posted by Marc at 3/6/2007 6:43:08 AM
Dear all I experienced a problem wit a SQL Server Datawarehouse I want to report to the community. I have a table with a unique unclustered index. A SSIS package fills this table during load time. In this package I use a OleDB Destination Data Flow item to fill the table, this with the opti...more >>

SSIS - adding line numbers to imported data
Posted by sqllearner NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 3/5/2007 10:45:58 AM
I need to import a flat file as follows: Column1,Column2,Column3 1,2,3 4,5,6 (snip) 123,456,789 Downloaded from www.abcdef.com on 02/28/2007. Total1: 12344556 Total2: 234523 Total3: 56456 Copyright 2004-2007 by ABCDEF Group LLC. All Rights Reserved. The last line is some kind of sig...more >>

what is MQs in Ab-initio
Posted by mansurkhan at 3/4/2007 5:14:39 AM
HI I am Mansur currently serching for a job on Ab-initio. In the recent interview i was asked a Question what is MQ ? So please let me know what is it. regards Mansur ...more >>

Surrogate Key and Deploiement
Posted by MIB at 3/1/2007 5:29:10 AM
Hi, In my project, for each table i used a surrogate key in my dev envirronement. Now i want to deploy my database and my reports. But i have few report wich are based on a particular surrogate key, and this key is different between the dev and the production. What should i do, because if in ...more >>


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