Master Data Management 101: Standardize Units of Measure

Introduction      There’s quite a bit of hoopla about MDM lately, mostly due to awareness. While “Lacks needed data” was cited as the number 1 problem (with 21 votes) in data warehouses in the recent IBM Data Warehousing Satisfaction Survey (2007), “Insufficient or inadequate master data” made a decent showing at second with 17 votes (see Table …
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Master Data Management 101: Standardize Units of Measure

Introduction      There’s quite a bit of hoopla about MDM lately, mostly due to awareness. While “Lacks needed data” was cited as the number 1 problem (with 21 votes) in data warehouses in the recent IBM Data Warehousing Satisfaction Survey (2007), “Insufficient or inadequate master data” made a decent showing at second with 17 votes (see Table …
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Master Data Management 101: Standardize Units of Measure

Introduction      There’s quite a bit of hoopla about MDM lately, mostly due to awareness. While “Lacks needed data” was cited as the number 1 problem (with 21 votes) in data warehouses in the recent IBM Data Warehousing Satisfaction Survey (2007), “Insufficient or inadequate master data” made a decent showing at second with 17 votes (see Table …
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Master Data Management 101: Standardize Units of Measure

Introduction      There’s quite a bit of hoopla about MDM lately, mostly due to awareness. While “Lacks needed data” was cited as the number 1 problem (with 21 votes) in data warehouses in the recent IBM Data Warehousing Satisfaction Survey (2007), “Insufficient or inadequate master data” made a decent showing at second with 17 votes (see Table …
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SSIS Design Pattern – Read a DataSet From Variable In a Script Task

Introduction One of the things I appreciate about SSIS is the script elements. There is a lot of functionality built into the engine out of the box but I like the idea of having a Script Task on the Control Flow and a Script Component on the Data Flow just in case. Last month I used …
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Accessing Parent Package Variables In Child Packages… Without Configurations

If you’ve needed to close the information loop in an SSIS Parent-Child package architecture (also known as Master Package Design), Steve Fibich has a post is for you! This is the neatest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Once a child package is called, the parent package variables are available for reference and update – without …
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From my PASS presentations: Custom Test Condition Code: ETL Counts (Team Edition for Database Professionals)

I’d like to thank the people that attended my sessions at the 2007 PASS Summit in Denver this week! I had a blast and hope you all did as well. The code will be available from the PASS website and on a DVD. For those in my sessions, I promised I would post the code …
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PASS Presentation – Team Edition for Database Professionals

I am honored and so excited to be presenting a couple sessions at the PASS Summit in Denver next month! One presentation is entitled Applied Team Edition for Database Professionals. The focus is TEDP in action for database development. I cover a lot of the material in my Testing the Database chapter of the new Wrox book: Professional …
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PASS Presentation – SSIS Development And Testing

I am honored and so excited to be presenting a couple sessions at the PASS Summit in Denver next month! One presentation is entitled Integrate Your SSIS Development. The focus is on SSIS development and testing. I touch on continuous integration and test-first development – using Team Foundation Server for the CI and Team Edition for Database Professionals to …
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