Sid Atkinson

Sid is a business intelligence (BI) and SQL Server specialist at Catapult Systems, and blogs about Microsoft-related topics including BI.
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Nov20

Free Online SQL 2008 Training

I have been meaning to post this for a while, but you know how work gets in the way…. This came out in some of the Microsoft newsletters and as a poster in SQL Server magazine: www.getonthecase.com The sessions offered online are as follows: Working with asynchronous data in SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 and ADO.Net entity framework integration Uncovering T-SQL on SQL Server 2008 ...
Posted by Sidney Atkinson on Thursday, 20 Nov 2008 10:56.
0 Comments | Categories: SQL Server

 
Nov16

SQL 2008 Intellisense

In my post, Why use aliases?, I spoke in favor of using a certain syntax in your SQL programming, particularly because SQL Server 2008 gives you almost no reason not to with integrated Intellisense. One little note for those who may have run into a frustration while developing – Intellisense in SQL 2008 does not always refresh timely. This can be particularly annoying if you are in the middle...
Posted by Sidney Atkinson on Sunday, 16 Nov 2008 10:53.
0 Comments | Categories: SQL Programming

 
Nov14

Dynamically remapping source to destination in SSIS

This all started off in trying to help out a fellow SSIS enthusiast, and now I have made a complete project as a sample….. catch the MSDN forum thread here. There are many reasons why you would want to remap source columns to destination at runtime – I would not necessarily recommend this type of solution for some of your larger and more impactful data imports, but there are many cases where ...
Posted by Sidney Atkinson on Friday, 14 Nov 2008 10:53.
0 Comments | Categories: SSIS

 
Nov7

SSIS Caching and Performance

I've been trying to be a good citizen and post more in the SQL Server section of the MSDN forums, and so I came across a question in the SQL Server > SSIS section about start-up performance that made me realize not a lot of people are aware of how a package initially executes. Since Kirk Haselden was my original source for some of this information so I will point to his post, Caching in Th...
Posted by Sidney Atkinson on Friday, 7 Nov 2008 10:52.
0 Comments | Categories: SSIS