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If you work in Financial based Enterprise then Sarbanes-Oxley is not a new concept for you as per American law that regulates the accountability of publicly owned companies. Just to talk about the main purpose of the law it to make sure the financial statement that a company reports is legitimate and that there’s no room for someone to manipulate ...

Making best use of SQL Server Integration Services within your ETL processes is a flexible choice, which has a huge share within the Business Intelligence application platform. You may be aware that SSIS introduces several new and enhanced features and tools to help you manage packages for ETL processes more effectively. To be specific about IS ...

Do you have hundreds of SSIS packages to manage? Do they run at various times to address the ETL solutions within your environment?   Let's say you have to  modify the base table columns, so you need to consider what kind of impact this change would have affect on the various SSIS packages that are dependant within this base ...

Log or trace of activities will help you to get detailed information on what's going wrong, that too very useful for ETL based processes. In this regard within SQL Server 2005 using SSIS you can enable such logging within the package's  runtime.   This will allow you to log the output to 5 providers, such as text ...

Recently when I had a task to identify the learning materials (free) and web resources for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), then first place I have used is MVP private newsgroups. You will appreciate the immediate help I received from fellow MVPs in getting the list swiftly, they are as follows: Books Online (updated) - As the ...

Multiple versions of SQL Server installation is quite common when your enterprise is looking forward to upgrade to latest versions of SQL Server, in this regard recently one of the Application user reported a problem with regard to SSIS & DTS services on their server. They are still on process of assessing the move from SQL Server 2000 ...

So far the SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services new features were included until October CTP, top features that Microsoft would like to include within RTM version: New Aggregation designer - to browse and modify aggregation designs that are now shown grouped by measure group. Simplified and enhanced Aggregation Design and Usage-Based ...

As you are aware that SYSMON (PERFMON) provides very useful counters to analyze the system performance or to schedule a historical growth of your system usage.   From the changes (upgrade) to the Operating System and  SQL Server we now have new set of SQL Server Integration Services ...

I had tough time working with Integration Services (SSIS) on one of the 64 bit machine that will be used for a 24/7 based application. So here goes my ranting and things you need to take care when having installation of SQL Server 2005 on 64 bit platform, specially within ETL processes completion. So at first, when you install SQL Server ...

A specific task of importing data from a text file or any data source where heave inserts and updates are involved is quite common scenario in any SQL Server platform. So when you need to perform such actions on regular basis you need what's the best way to import data from text files into SQL Server where a mix of inserts and updates is ...