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SQLAuthority News – Latest expressor Data Integration Platform Posts

September 22, 2011

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

Here is the quick summary of my recent blog post which I have written while I am experimenting expressor data Integration platform. SQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor 3.4 Lookup Tables In this blog post, I am going to take a closer look at expressor’s new and extremely versatile implementation…

SQL SERVER 2012 Functions – 14 New Functions – A Quick Guide

September 21, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Server

Last two weeks I wrote various blog posts on new functions introduced in SQL Server 2012. So many comments and request I have received from various readers that they would like to see everything together. I have put up a quick guide here where I am writing all the 14 new SQL Server 2012 Functions linking them to my blog post as well Book On-Line for a quick reference.

SQL SERVER – Denali – Date and Time Functions – EOMONTH() – A Quick Introduction

September 20, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts

In SQL Server Denali, seven new datetime functions have been introduced, namely, DATEFROMPARTS (year, month, day) DATETIME2FROMPARTS (year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, fractions, precision) DATETIMEFROMPARTS (year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, milliseconds) DATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTS (year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, fractions, hour_offset, minute_offset, precision) SMALLDATETIMEFROMPARTS (year, month, day, hour, minute)…

SQLAuthority News – Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse Using the Kimball Approach

September 18, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL White Papers

This white paper explores how the Kimball approach to architecting and building a data warehouse/business intelligence (DW/BI) system works with Microsoft’s Parallel Data Warehouse, and how you would incorporate this new product as the cornerstone of your DW/BI system. For readers who are not familiar with the Kimball approach, we…

SQLAuthority News – Automation of Data Mining Using Integration Services

September 18, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL White Papers

This article is a walkthrough that illustrates how to build multiple related data models by using the tools that are provided with Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services. In this walkthrough, you will learn how to automatically build and process multiple data mining models based on a single mining structure, how…

SQL SERVER – Denali – String Function – FORMAT() – A Quick Introduction

September 17, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts

In SQL Server Denali, there are two new string functions being introduced, namely: CONCAT() FORMAT() Today we will quickly take a look at the FORMAT() function. FORMAT converts the first argument to specified format and returns the string value. This function is locale-aware and it can return the formatting of…

SQL SERVER 2012 – String Function CONCAT() – A Quick Introduction

September 16, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

In SQL Server 2012, there are two new string functions being introduced, namely: CONCAT(), FORMAT(). In this blog post we are going to learn about String Function CONCAT(). CONCAT takes a minimum of two arguments to concatenate them, resulting to a single string.