Security: Capturing additional login information Trace vs Audit

Recently on a popular SQL Server forum as well as commonly during my trainings people ask about how to get additional security information about logins. Most often the error they see is similar to the one below. Where a connection keeps failing for any number of reasons and the DBA is trying to identify from…

Better Triage: Getting hospital care delivered properly

If you have seen my recent posts on LinkedIn you probably know that I am looking to interact with healthcare professionals to brainstorm ideas on how Triage can be improved. In this post I will cover what Triage is and some common issues identified with the process and my attempt at a solution. I am…

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SSIS – Fuzzy grouping task

It’s warm, fuzzy and brings similar data together helping correct typos, different titles for the same role and much more. Today I present a short video explaining how to configure a Fuzzy Grouping task within SSIS. It carries forward from my previous post on exporting LinkedIn contacts information to created Analytics on contacts information. The…

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Video for SSIS Starter kit

A video explaining all the tasks (control flow and data flow) for the SSIS series for beginners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrarG-cU4RQ Here is the list of blogposts that contain the complete list of steps. http://enabledbusinesssolutions.com/blog/ssis-starter-kit-for-the-uninitiated-foreachloop/ I am waiting to modify the package to perform a few additional tasks. If you need the code urgently, please PM me and…

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SSIS – Starter kit for the uninitiated – Data enrichment

In this last post (after which there will be a video explaining how to bring all this together in Power view) I cover how to convert geo coordinates from 38° 53′ 55.133″ N to Decimal Coordinate system 38.898648. You can find the previous posts here. The calculations is fairly simple the sql for it is…

SSIS – Starter kit for the uninitiated Data Flow Task

In this post we explore how to use the DFT (Data Flow Task) to load data from an XML file into the database. For previous post on how we got till this step please click here. Step Screenshot Double Click and open the DFT we had added in the previous post. Drag and Drop an…