In 2019 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) news reported a massive data breach at the Desjardins Group, which is a Canadian financial service cooperative and the largest federation of credit unions in North America. The report indicated, a "malicious" employee copied sensitive personal information collected by Desjardins from their data warehouse. The data breach compromised the […]
2022-03-30
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In this tip we look at some things you should think about when planning for a SQL Server data warehouse.
2019-02-12
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The modern data warehouse design helps in building a hub for all types of data to initiate integrated and transformative solutions. To achieve these goals and to support modern designs, Microsoft has introduced a set of fully managed, cloud-based services that not only support modern data warehouse design patterns but also provide the advantages of inbuilt scalability, high availability, good performance, and flexibility.
2018-09-04
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It is ironic that the users of database application need to rely on the very technologists that created the system to then devise and run their acceptance tests. Surely someone has devised a test system for databases that is simple enough for ordinary tech-savvy people to use and for them to create the tests? Yes they have. Fitnesse DbFit is a mature product that can, and does, test SQL Server databases, and Nat Sundar explains how to set it up and do it.
2017-05-18
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A method to create and populate Date and Time dimension tables for a data warehouse project.
2014-01-21
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What do you do first when developing a data warehouse? MVP Andy Leonard brings us a look at the foundation he uses, which might surprise you.
2011-04-07
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This article will show you how to use SSIS to create inferred dimension members on the fly during a fact table load process.
2013-12-24 (first published: 2010-12-08)
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By Steve Jones
I have often made an effort to attend conferences in the past to grow...
Another discussion in Gothenburg (such a great group of people) around Extended Events lead...
Let's be honest – SQL can be a bit of a beast. At first...
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