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Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:34 AM

SSWUG.org Business Intelligence Virtual Conference

The SSWUG.org virtual conference is less than a week away. If you haven't already registered, you can use this VIP code to get an additional discount off the admission price. VIP CODE: MMASVIP Incase you missed it, a preview of my Lookup session (as well
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:54 AM

SQL Server 2005 SP3 beta now available

The SQL Server 2005 SP3 beta is now available for download . The service pack doesn't contain any new features for SSIS, but it does contain a number of bug fixes - a roll up of all of the cumulative updates since SP2, as well as some fixes that were
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:28 AM

Lookup presentation teaser available online

They've posted part of the Advanced Lookup Scenarios presentation I recorded for the SSWUG conference on the vConference site. You can now watch the first ten minutes online. I recorded two other sessions in addition to the Lookup one - "Beyond Scripting",
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 4:01 PM

Calculating the size of your Lookup cache

Good news - a couple of Information log events where added to the Lookup Transform in SQL 2008 to help you better understand your lookup cache. When you're running in Full Cache mode , the message will tell you the number of rows in the cache, its total
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:54 PM

Lookup cache modes

Over the past couple of months I've been putting together a presentation on the Lookup Transform. I presented most of it as a Chalk Talk at the MS BI Conference last week, and from the evaluation scores, it seems like it was pretty well received. I'll
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:37 PM

Presenting at PASS

I’ll be co-presenting a session at PASS this year entitled Incremental data warehouse loads with MERGE and Change Data Capture . This will be my first PASS conference, and I’m really looking forward to it. The conference is November 18-21 in Seattle.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:20 PM

SSWUG virtual conference interview

Chris Shaw has posted my answers to some interview questions he sent out to all of the speakers at the upcoming SSWUG Virtual Conference . I hope I don't get into trouble for any of them. I've mentioned the conference before , and I thought I'd take this
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 3:05 PM

Attunity connectors for Oracle and Teradata are now available

The high speed connectors for Oracle and Teradata are now available for download .   Supported versions Platforms Oracle 9.2.0.4 or higher x86, x64, ia64 Teradata 2R6.0, 2R6.1, 2R6.2 and 12.0 x86, x64 Attunity has done a great job putting these together,
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:27 PM

Presenting at the Microsoft BI Conference

On Monday (October 6th) I’ll be doing a chalk talk presentation at the MS BI Conference . The topic is Advanced Scenarios with the Lookup Transform . Here is the abstract: Performing lookups is one of the most common operations in the ETL process, and
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