How To Build A Data Mart Using Microsoft BI Stack Part 3 – Data Mart Load...
In the FIRST POST to this series I analysed the schema, objects and the data they hold for our mini data mart. This was followed by my SECOND POST outlining some key development concepts and...
View ArticleHow To Build A Data Mart Using Microsoft BI Stack Part 5 – Defining SSAS...
In the PREVIOUS POST I explored SQL Server Integration Services functionality and how the SQL code samples integrated into developing an ETL routine provide automated data mart loading. In this post I...
View ArticleHow To Build A Data Mart Using Microsoft BI Stack Part 6 – Refining SSAS Data...
In the PREVIOUS POST I started exploring the concept of using SQL Server Analysis Services as a storage engine for our dimensional data and outlined how to start building a simple SSAS project with...
View ArticleHow To Build A Data Mart Using Microsoft BI Stack Part 7 – Cube Creation,...
In the PREVIOUS POST I showed you how to refine our SSAS project and went over the concepts of dimension properties and hierarchies before cube creation and deployment process can be initiated. In...
View ArticleHow to create a simple ETL/stored procedure error capturing database (schema...
Introduction Two part series (second part can be found HERE) on how to create and implement an ETL execution error capturing database (schema model, SQL code, implementation etc.) based on Microsoft...
View ArticleHow to create a simple ETL/stored procedure error capturing database (schema...
In PART 1 of this series I analysed the execution error tracking database schema as well as the code for ‘scraping’ SQL Server metadata in order to populate the database tables with instance, database,...
View ArticleTableau Server Workgroup PostgreSQL Database Schema And Data Synchronization
Last client who engaged me to architect and develop a small data warehouse for them also made a large investment in Tableau as their default reporting platform. The warehouse data, small by today’s...
View ArticleData Acquisition Framework Using Custom Python Wrapper For Concurrent BCP...
Although building a data acquisition framework for a data warehouse isn’t nearly or as interesting as doing analytics or data mining on the already well-structured data, it’s an essential part of any...
View ArticleDesigning a historised, relational ‘data lake’– how to speed up data...
Problem Statement Data warehouse modelling techniques have largely been left unchanged for decades and most of common methodologies and patterns which were prevalent when I was starting my career in...
View ArticleData Build Tool (DBT) – The Emerging Standard For Building SQL-First Data...
In Part 1 of this series, I went over the high-level introduction to dbt, stood up a small development SQL Server database in Azure, acquired a sample size of Google Analytics data to populate a few...
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