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all groups > sql server data warehouse > june 2007

Determining Last Day of the Month--Quick UDF
Posted by Namwar Rizvi at 6/26/2007 11:47:24 PM
Hi All, Getting the last day of the month, for the given date, by TSQL is bit tricky. Following user defined function provides you a handy general purpose function to get the last day of the month. It gets the last day of the month as follows: For example we have a given date 17-March-2007...more >>


Is there a perfmon counter(s) that show the results is from cubes?
Posted by Vui at 6/25/2007 6:57:00 PM
How do I find out if the result is from the cube(s) with perfmon? ...more >>

Fact Table Design for Hours Worked
Posted by Mahesh at 6/22/2007 3:26:33 PM
Hi, I am trying to design a cube with Date, Time and Employee dimension which can answer following questions: - how many employees were working at 10am on 15 June 2007? I - how many man hours were pais between 10am -11am on 15 June 2007. If somebody has punched in at 10:30 then he should ...more >>

Implementing Data Warehouse
Posted by Roger Tranchez at 6/22/2007 10:08:01 AM
Hello, all of you, DB Gurus! I would like you to give your opinion about the way I'm implementing Data Warehouse on my company, and the ways to enhance it. If this is not the best place to publish it please let me know, as far as this is an important question for the future of information ...more >>

ProClarity and Windows Vista
Posted by Darren at 6/22/2007 5:49:00 AM
I have recently moved over to Windows Vista Business Edition and have issues with the installation of ProClarity 6.1 (also with v6.3). Having installed ProClarity, I find that it fails to launch. All I get is a Windows message stating that it has stopped working. Has anyone else had this ...more >>

referential integrity
Posted by news.microsoft.com at 6/20/2007 12:00:00 AM
When implementing a schema for data warehousing is it common practice not to implement referential integrity across the tables in the database? If true is it purely for ETL purposes or does it improve query performance if the referential integrity is not applied to the tables. Ollie ...more >>

Analysis Services service hangs cube build / timeout on process cu
Posted by Shari at 6/18/2007 3:31:00 PM
We have two apparent issues with Analysis Services (AS) as outlined below: 1. We have a rebuild of the nightly cube build and quite often the first step would hang (just run without processing). We would have to stop the job, restart Analysis Services and then start the job again, resulting...more >>

Data Mart rollbacks
Posted by Joe at 6/18/2007 9:13:46 AM
How have folks been managing rollbacks on failures inside SSIS when = populating data marts? For example - we have a seperate package for each dimension table, then = a master Fact table update. If one of the dimension table updates fails = - how have you rolled back the previous changes in t...more >>



BI Studio: Poor Performance When Opening a Solution
Posted by SBublitz at 6/12/2007 10:46:00 PM
When I am opening a Business Intelligence Solution it takes up to 6 minutes until the system is ready to work. The first 4 minutes I see Visual Studio with the grey background. In the remaining time the packages appear but don't accept any input. Meanwhile Visual Studio is reporting that it...more >>

ETL and SSIS/SSAS roles in it all.
Posted by Laura at 6/8/2007 11:46:01 AM
I am a student in a data warehousing class. This is my only experience using SQL Server 2005 BI ETL tools. I need to extract, transform, and load into a data warehouse using SQL Server 2005. I've extracted all tables from my 3nf d.b. into flat files using SSIS. My question is about the con...more >>

How Large Is Too Large?
Posted by Joe at 6/7/2007 7:40:22 AM
Hi, Just got done with the requirements gathering and discovered that my users want to measure about 200 items with the warehouse. So I envision a Fact table with about 200 columns. This seems quite large to me - but maybe other developers feel differently. So my question ...more >>

How are you documenting your ETL processes
Posted by GreenHillCourt at 6/1/2007 9:51:42 PM
I'm currently using SSIS on a fairly large project. I wanted to know how other developers are documenting their ETL processes. I've started using Visio for flow charting some of my ETL processes. But I am finding it difficult to use. So, What tools/products are you using and are they working ...more >>

SSIS Merge Join
Posted by LjP at 6/1/2007 12:56:03 PM
I am trying to move data from sql2000 to sql2005 In the data flow source I have select str_seq, one_seq, one_cd, two_seq, two_cd from table1 After this I have a Mulicast with two lookups (in sql 2005) Lookup one is asking for one_key based on one_seq and lookup two is asking for two_key based...more >>


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