Our Fundamental Principles of Data Warehousing
I think many data warehousing shops get off on the wrong foot in defining their architecture. When we set out to create the Northwestern Medical Enterprise Data Warehouse, we identified three...
View ArticleOur Journey to Meaningful Use Certification – Part One
The Northwestern Medical Enterprise Data Warehouse received meaningful use certification for both of our Inpatient and Outpatient modules back in June 2011. Since then a lot of people have been...
View ArticleMr. Can’t-Know-It-All
Okay, let me start by saying that I struggle with the cliché that there are no stupid questions. I say that partly because I do believe there are stupid questions out there, typically asked by people...
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ETL Assistant – Using CozyRoc’s Parallel Loop Task
For the TLDR crowd – I’m supplying downloads of the packages so you can just open them and play. Download “Cozy Roc Parallel Loop Demo Files” contains: setup_sql.txt SequentialLoop.dtsx...
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ETL Assistant – Getting Error Row Description and Column Information Dynamically
This article is going to attempt to provide one solution to the question of row error management in SSIS. It’s one option, specially constructed for dynamic column mapping scenarios, but could...
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NUBIC’s FedEx Day
NUBIC decided to do a FedEx Day (following the Atlassian model). It’s our first FedEx Day, and we had about 1/3rd of our staff build or collaborate on projects between the NUBIC software development...
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Using the MERGE Statement in SSIS Via Stored Procedure
(this is a modified version of the article I wrote for SQLServer.com published on 1/23/012, ‘Using the MERGE Statement in SSIS Via A Stored Procedure‘) Background In our Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)...
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Monitoring Oracle GoldenGate Replicats on Windows
Table of Contents Goals Overview Monitoring Replicat Status Extracting Replicat Configuration Monitoring Status by Table Conclusion Credits & References: Goals We want to set up some processes to...
View ArticleThe EDW is Hiring Data Architects!
The Data Architect is responsible for developing information architectures and complex data models, and approves the modification, and new implementation of database systems. This individual works...
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ETL Assistant – Management Web UI Gallery
When we started putting ETL Assistant together it became immediately clear that we needed a UI. Something to help us get the job done, but something that didn’t get in the way. We threw together a...
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