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SSRS Web Presentation – Followup (Part 1)

April 9, 2016by mskathyv 1 Comment

Hi all! Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged, but I have a great new subject to talk about. Last week, I struggled through a cold to deliver a […]

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Adventures in Oracle SSMA!

January 12, 2015by mskathyv Leave a comment

Last week I had a very interesting engagement where I had to come up with a high level estimate for an Oracle migration to SQL Server using the SQL Server […]

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It’s a New Year!

January 2, 2015by mskathyv Leave a comment

It’s a New Year, and time for some new actions. I don’t do resolutions, but I’m all about starting new things, and January is a great time for that. So, […]

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SQL Server

What I learn from teaching

December 12, 2013by mskathyv Leave a comment

I just wrapped up another teaching engagement, teaching BI tools to a group of analyst and administrators. I really enjoy the opportunity to teach. What I realized is that I […]

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The value of doing it right the first time

October 24, 2013by mskathyv 2 Comments

Something I hear a lot as a consultant is “Let’s just get it done and we can go back and fine tune it later”. When I hear that, what *I* […]

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Personal, SQL Server, SSIS

DQS – Real World Complex Domains made… well… complex ;-)

September 7, 2013by mskathyv Leave a comment

One of the nice features in DQS is the ability to manage “complex” domains, i.e. groups of fields that must be validated on their own. An Address is a type […]

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Business Intelligence, Data Cleansing, SQL Server

My take on DQS so far – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

August 31, 2013by mskathyv Leave a comment

I’ve just spent two weeks learning how to cleanse data using the DQS tool that is a part of SQL 2012. Here’s my take so far. The Good The engine does […]

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Business Intelligence, Data Cleansing, SQL Server, SSIS

MDS, DQS, SSIS – a whole lot of letters without a lot to read!

August 24, 2013by mskathyv Leave a comment

I blogged last week that the way to solve my current customer’s problem (aggregating data from lots of sources) was to use the MDS and DQS tools from Microsoft SQL […]

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Business Intelligence, Data Cleansing, SQL Server, SSIS

SSIS Challenge Accepted!

August 17, 2013by mskathyv 1 Comment

Earlier this week I posted about having a new challenge – how to use SSIS to dynamically define and generate rules for data cleansing. This week I discovered that the way […]

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Business Intelligence, Data Cleansing, SQL Server, SSIS

SSIS challenge

August 11, 2013by mskathyv 1 Comment

This week my challenge is to come up with a way to make SSIS a dynamic rules-driven engine. This is a concept that is fairly easy to do in a […]

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Business Intelligence, SQL Server

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