I wrote a chapter for a book. An extraordinary book. Written and edited by 64 MVPs. It makes me wonder how I even got into the project that includes so many extraordinary and talented people. I should say that the feeling is very overwhelming and humbling. The book is called SQL Server MVP Deep Dives [...]
Forgive the cliché up there, but I could not resist it! In data warehousing (and data marting), we usually use the popular dimensional model (or the star schema) to design the data warehouse (or data mart). And it is a common conclusion that your fact tables are going to be huge. And would be updated [...]
When using a Data Flow Task in Integration Services, try to avoid data manipulations such as unions, sorts and joins using data flow tasks. Try to include all join, sort and union operations within your source queries itself. This way, you can do away with run-time issues that crop up when running your package with large amounts [...]
If you had flown AirAsia, you would probably know where I stole the title to this post from. Microsoft did the same thing too. Heh heh! No, not the stealing bit, but providing for (almost) every small organization to use BI – Something which only the big bucks could afford.
Everyone talks about data warehouses when it comes to business intelligence (BI); but seldom about data marts. They mostly ignore the term ‘data mart’ even though it is what they are actually working with. Even yours truly is guilty of that more often than not. Alright, so what’s so ding-dong special about a data mart? [...]
I have designed an interesting tool to be used with database systems. Currently, it is designed to work with SQL Server, and shall soon support other major database systems. Named Query Accelerator, it does just that: accelerate the execution of slow running queries. It has the capability to accelerate queries in varying degrees of speeds. [...]
Embarrassing it is indeed when one (particularly one at the top of their trade) gets caught not doing what they should have been doing by setting an example. The knowledge of existence of SQL Injection is so common that it goes without saying that sites have to guard themselves against these types of attacks. So [...]
