On the road once again, this time HYD for MSBI training in Wells Fargo. Looking forward to delivering some new content.
Training MSBI – Wells Fargo – HYD
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Month: August 2015
Lock, Latches, Waits and Deadlocks explained weirdly (like never before)!!!
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When conducting MS SQL Server Trainings I often resort to weird examples to explain how certain things work. Over the years I have some favorites that I use over and over. The most disgusting by far would be the one I use to explain Locking, blocking and deadlocks. There are some definite advantages to doing…
SQL 2016 -Row level security misuse: – Visual Totals in SSAS
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Ever since I heard of Row level security I have been wanting to try it out. Not the usual stuff that I was sure MS would have already handled and tested for but the more unusual security loop holes in it one of which I have mentioned at the very bottom of this post. Those…
Security: Capturing additional login information Trace vs Audit
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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
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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…
SSIS – Fuzzy grouping task
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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…
Video for SSIS Starter kit
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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…
SSIS – Starter kit for the uninitiated – Data enrichment
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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
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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…
SSIS – Starter kit for the uninitiated Foreachloop – for each file enumerator
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In this post we continue from where we left off in the last post, with the xml files now formatted properly it’s time to load the data into the database. To achieve this I am going to use the foreach loop container once more and this time use the for each file enumerator. Step Screenshot…
A simple change that could save Millions of $$$ in Support services
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I recently came across the below error message “An exception was thrown by Target of invocation” What it really means is the application you tried to run has reported an error. This got me thinking about how software has ignored one of the most important yet frustrating aspects of user experience. Easy to understand…
SSIS – Starter kit for the uninitiated – Execute process task and PowerShell
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In this fourth part of the series (see previous post here) we proceed to modify the XMl files downloaded from the web service. While this step is not mandatory in most cases where the XML is well formed, in this particular example we see an issue with the file. Namely < And > text is…
SSIS – Starter kit for the uninitiated – Dynamic File Paths
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Continuing from our previous post here we explore how to configure tasks to behave dynamically. More specifically how to configure the file connection manager to accept dynamic paths to store the output of our web service task. Navigate to the connection managers in the bottom pane of SSIS and right click the Connection manager we…
SSIS – Starter kit for the uninitiated – Web Service Task
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Continuing from the last post, we now configure the web Service task. If you visit the web service link you will see the below screen “http://free-web-services.com/web-services/geo/location-info/“ Click the Link for Airport Information, it will take you to the below screen where you can find the URL for the web service. Click the URL to…
SSIS – Starter kit for the uninitiated – Foreachloop
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I was up at 3:00 AM in the morning and felt that the world needs to know where all the airports are and how you could use SSIS and PowerView to display this information in a clean and concise way. This need was so powerful that I spent the next 4 hours writing an SSIS…