Web Scraping With Python – Wikipedia Words Frequency Analysis Using Matplotlib
Words counting applications, even though rather ordinary and conventional on the face value, are a great exercise in programming language exploration and learning process, typically encompassing many...
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Which One Should I Use – NOT EXISTS, NOT IN, OUTER APPLY, EXCEPT and LEFT...
Introduction Lately I’ve been involved in a large enterprise data warehouse deployment project and the in last few weeks we have been at a point where we’ve slowly begun transitioning from dimension...
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SQL Server Data Synchronization Automation Using Tablediff Utility and SSIS –...
Note: Second part to this series can be found HERE On one of the recent project a client posed a requirement that a data synchronization routine between database objects is to be developed with minimal...
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SQL Server Data Synchronization Automation Using Tablediff Utility and SSIS –...
In the FIRST post this short series I briefly outlined tablediff utility and set the stage (databases, objects, directories and batch file) for the SSIS package responsible for data synchronization...
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Hadoop Musing – How to Install Hortonworks Hadoop Distribution (Sandbox and...
Introduction The venerable Hadoop obsession has taken its toll on me so I thought that in the spirit of the current data management trends it would be a good idea to start looking into the whole Hadoop...
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How 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...
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How 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,...
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In-Memory Natively Compiled Stored Procedures Performance Comparison in SQL...
Introduction Whilst the past couple of pre-2014 SQL Server releases have had a strong focus on business intelligence (BI), 2014 edition focuses largely on relational database features and support....
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Microsoft SQL Server Hardware Evaluation and Sizing – Best Practices Guide...
Introduction As my last client engagement required me to provide a suitable server hardware specifications for the upcoming data warehouse deployment I though it would be a good idea to revise SQL...
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Microsoft SQL Server Hardware Evaluation and Sizing – Best Practices Guide...
Continuing on from the FIRST post to this series, this installment focuses on arguably the most important aspects of SQL Server hardware sizing – CPU, RAM and storage selection. Let’s start with a...
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Asynchronous SQL Execution via SQL Server Agent Jobs
Recently, one of the clients tasked me with creating a data acquisition routine for an externally hosted MySQL database data, a part of a larger ETL solution to merge dispersed data sources into a...
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SSIS Packages Execution Workflow Control – How To Run a SSIS Package Based on...
SQL Server Integration Services architecture offers an easy way to impose workflow control based on individual transformation execution status through precedence constraints implementation. If, for...
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Enhancing SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Functionality Through Python...
Ever since Python started to gain traction in the developers community as one of the most versatile and easy to learn programming language, Microsoft has made great strides to make it a first-class...
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Tableau 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...
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Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse Quick Review and Amazon Redshift...
Note: Part 2 can be found HERE and code files downloaded from HERE Introduction Last time I wrote about cloud-enabled data warehousing (see the 3-part series starting HERE), only one vendor and product...
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Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse Quick Review and Amazon Redshift...
In the first part of this series I briefly explored Microsoft Azure Data Warehouse key differentiating features that set it apart from the likes of AWS Redshift and outlined how we can load the Azure...
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Using Python and Tableau to Scrape and Visualize Twitter User Data
Note: all the code and additional files for this post can be downloaded from my OneDrive folder HERE. Introduction What can I say…I like Twitter and I use it often to get interesting content links on...
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Designing data acquisition framework in SQL Server and SSIS – how to source...
Note: Part 2 to this series can be found HERE, Part 3 HERE, Part 4 HERE and all the code and additional files for this post can be downloaded from my OneDrive folder HERE Introduction There is a lot of...
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Designing data acquisition framework in SQL Server and SSIS – how to source...
Note: Part 1 to this series can be found HERE, Part 3 HERE, Part 4 HERE and all the code and additional files for this post can be downloaded from my OneDrive folder HERE. Continuing on from part 1 to...
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Designing data acquisition framework in SQL Server and SSIS – how to source...
Note: Part 1 to this series can be found HERE, Part 2 HERE, Part 4 HERE and all the code and additional files for this post can be downloaded from my OneDrive folder HERE. Continuing on from Part 2 to...
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