April 2009 - Posts

• Does SSIS knows how to sort a flow of data? Well… no

  Today I ran into a nice misfeature of SSIS that worths sharing. If I want to use SSIS to sort a flow of data, containing both lowecase and uppercase strings, I would expect a standard behaviour or, at least, something with some “common sense”. As I am Read More... Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 1:52 PM by AlbertoFerrari | 12 Comments

• European PASS 2009

  Guys, I’m excited of being a speaker at the European PASS Conference 2009 (April 22-24, 2009 - Neuss, Germany). I will present three sessions, on Slowly Changing Dimension Handling, OLAP partitioning with SSIS and scripts and, most interesting (at least Read More... Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:13 PM by AlbertoFerrari | 1 Comments