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		<title>SQLBits 10 London</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 10th SQLBits conference will be on 29th to 31st March 2012 (Thursday to Saturday) in Novotel London West, London W6 8DR. This time, the SQLBits will not be just a SQL Server Conference. It will also be the place where Microsoft will announce SQL Server 2012, which is known as Denali. See here [link] [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6952394&amp;post=2566&amp;subd=dwbi1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Your Data Warehouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that your data warehouse is built, populated, and ready, you need to test it. How do you test a data warehouse? Where do you start? There are a billion numbers and strings in the data warehouse and how do you verify them all? Can you just verify a few rows and then declare that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6952394&amp;post=2557&amp;subd=dwbi1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Half Year To Date</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half Year To Date In MDX we have Year To Date, Month To Date and Week To Date functions, but we don’t have Half Year To Date. This article is about how to do Half Year To Date. YTD (Year To Date) We use the YTD function to can get all dates/months from 1st Jan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6952394&amp;post=2541&amp;subd=dwbi1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SSIS: True/False and 1/0 values on Bit Columns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The column is defined as bit on a SQL Server table. You created an SSIS package to export the table to a text file. In Mgt Studio when you query the table, the bit column displays 1 and 0 as its value, but in the output text file they are true and false. You looked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6952394&amp;post=2537&amp;subd=dwbi1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WhereScape RED</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 4 years ago I had an idea (well, more of a dream really) of “building a data warehouse at the press of a button”. This means that everything is automated, including the development of the reports/cubes and the development of ETL. I understand that we can build SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS programmatically (and Informatica [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6952394&amp;post=2530&amp;subd=dwbi1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SSAS Videos</title>
		<link>http://dwbi1.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/ssas-videos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Boby Joseph who mentioned Craig Utley&#8217;s SSAS videos to me: http://www.learnmicrosoftbi.com/Videos/tabid/75/Default.aspx Contents include Cube Sparsity, Query Performance, Perspectives, Translations , Storage Modes, ProClarity. Craig Utley is a former SQL Server MVP. He is a mentor with Solid Quality Mentors and a former Program Manager on the SQLCAT team. He wrote Business Intelligence with Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6952394&amp;post=2524&amp;subd=dwbi1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Methods of Reporting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an application we have two methods of reporting: a) We build reports to extract data directly from the application database b) We send the application data to a data warehouse and we build reports from the data warehouse I have worked with some companies which did a) as well as b). The advantages for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6952394&amp;post=2518&amp;subd=dwbi1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 2 things I missed in SQL Server and Oracle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few months I used both SQL Server and Oracle every day. This is because the source system is in SQL Server and the data warehouse is in Oracle. I begin to miss little things on SQL Server that I don’t get in Oracle, and vice versa. I thought I’d write this experience [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6952394&amp;post=2512&amp;subd=dwbi1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UNK  in Data Warehousing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word “UNK” is quite popular in data warehousing. It is the short form of “Unknown”. The word “Unknown” is used to populate if an attribute is NULL in a dimension. Approach I For example, say you have an attribute called Country in your customer dimension. In the source system, for a particular customer you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6952394&amp;post=2508&amp;subd=dwbi1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Data Warehouse Must Always Reflect the Values in the Source System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All these years I always assumed that data warehouse was the place for a single version of the truth. It is the place for integration. If the department A has data different from department B, then we integrate it in the DW. If the DW is for a group of companies, and the companies have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6952394&amp;post=2500&amp;subd=dwbi1&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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