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		<title>Treasury in Investment Banking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are asking yourself “I’m a data (warehouse) architect, why on earth do I have to know about Treasury?”, well, you don’t, if you are not in banking. If you are in banking, then you need to know treasury because it is a supporting function that all banks have. Whether you are in Fixed [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6952394&#038;post=3294&#038;subd=dwbi1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Difference between CURRENT_DATE and SYSDATE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The difference between CURRENT_DATE and SYSDATE is: CURRENT_DATE is the client’s time zone SYSDATE is server’s time zone i.e. if you are in London and your Oracle database server is in New York: CURRENT_DATE: 02/01/2013 10:26:25 SYSDATE: 02/01/2013 05:26:25 Filed under: Oracle BI<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6952394&#038;post=3288&#038;subd=dwbi1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SSIS 2012: Converting Date from Excel for Lookup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have an Excel file like this (date column in DD-MM-YYYY): We have a Date Dimension table like this (date column in YYYY-MM-DD): Using SSIS 2012, we want to convert the date column in Excel from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD so we can lookup the Date_Key value in the Date Dimension. We want to output it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6952394&#038;post=3262&#038;subd=dwbi1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Formatting Dates in SQL Server 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, after a long wait, we have “Format” in SQL Server which enable us to format dates. In Oracle we have to_char to format a date to any format we want e.g. to_char(date1, ‘YYYY-MM-DD’). And this is since Oracle 9i (2001). Now in SQL Server 2012 we have the Format function which we can use [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6952394&#038;post=3253&#038;subd=dwbi1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bit and Pieces on Oracle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things on Oracle proved to be very useful for me. I’ll share them below because I’m sure they are useful for some of you too. 1. Searching for a column name select * from all_tab_columns where table_name like ‘C%’ and column_name like ‘%ST%’ 2. Add/delete a column alter table account add account_number varchar2(30) alter [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6952394&#038;post=3245&#038;subd=dwbi1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Composite</title>
		<link>http://dwbi1.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/composite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Composite enables us to integrate data from various sources to provide BI. It is called data virtualisation (DV). It’s the exact opposite of a data warehouse (DW), where we collect data from various sources and store it in a new data store. The biggest advantage of using Composite is its speed to market. Without building [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6952394&#038;post=3236&#038;subd=dwbi1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do We Need a Data Warehouse?</title>
		<link>http://dwbi1.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/why-do-we-need-a-data-warehouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of times people question the value of data warehousing. Why do we spend 1 year building a data warehouse? We can’t wait that long. Let’s just install QlikView/Spotfire and feed the transaction system direct to it and we have a BI! Absolutely! You can. You can buy BO, MicroStrategy, QlikView, Spotfire or any [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6952394&#038;post=3232&#038;subd=dwbi1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tibco Spotfire</title>
		<link>http://dwbi1.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/tibco-spotfire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like QlikView, Spotfire provides capability to serve BI users with analytical reports, with which users can slice and dice the data, export to Excel/PDF, in various different types of visualisations including pivot tables and charts. Unlike SSAS, Spotfire don’t require an OLAP cubes to be built first. We define a set of data tables which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6952394&#038;post=3229&#038;subd=dwbi1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SSIS: Automating DDL Changes</title>
		<link>http://dwbi1.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/ssis-automating-ddl-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See Preeti&#8217;s comment 3/10/12 on &#8220;SSIS: Importing a File with Dynamic Columns&#8221; article (link): Will elaborate my question ?I have columns dynamically changing on source side like adding,deleting  which is SQL ,have my target as Oracle ,how to handle dynamically the source changes to be in sync with target (Oracle) structure before loading.I knw in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6952394&#038;post=2930&#038;subd=dwbi1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make yourself sysadmin on SQL 2008 Express</title>
		<link>http://dwbi1.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/make-yourself-sysadmin-on-sql-2008-express/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vincent Rainardi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to give yourself sysadmin permission on SQL Server 2008 Express Caviat: you need to be a member of local admin in the computer where the SQL Express is installed. Here&#8217;s how: 1. Stop SQL Express using Configuration Manager (or Windows services) 2. Start SQL Express in single user mode: cd \Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Binn [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dwbi1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6952394&#038;post=2906&#038;subd=dwbi1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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