Hadi Fadlallah

Posted on March 13, 2020

In this article, we will explain how to generate SSIS packages using business intelligence markup language by providing a step-by-step guide where we will illustrate how to configure each object and how to use variables, expressions and parameters within the package.

Posted on March 4, 2020

In this article, we will give an overview of the Execute T-SQL Statement Task, and we will make a small comparison with the Execute SQL Task which is more popular.

Posted on March 2, 2020

What is the SSIS package GraphLayout? Is it readable in programmatically generated SSIS package?

Posted on February 26, 2020

In this article, we will give a brief overview of BIML by showing how it can be installed and how we can use it to generate SSIS packages using the BimlExpress tool. Finally, we will provide some good resources to learn this technology.

Posted on February 12, 2020

In this article, we will give an overview of the first two tasks provided by Integration Services (SSIS) that allows manipulating OLAP cubes and executing commands over SSAS. These two tasks are Analysis Services Processing Task and Analysis Services Execute DDL Task.

Posted on February 6, 2020

In this article, we will explain how a string to date conversion can be achieved implicitly, or explicitly in SQL Server using built-in functions such as CAST(), TRY_CAST(), CONVERT(), TRY_CONVERT() and TRY_PARSE().

Posted on January 28, 2020

SQL join multiple tables is one of the most popular types of statements executed while handling relational databases. As known, there are five types of join operations: Inner, Left, Right, Full and Cross joins. In this article, we will explain the meaning of Joins in SQL, we will describe each... [Read More]

Posted on January 23, 2020

SQL cursor is one of the most popular database objects. It is used to retrieve data from the result set of an SQL query one row at a time. Even if the cursor is not recommended from a performance perspective, they are still widely used especially when handling a small... [Read More]

Posted on January 13, 2020

This article is a supplement to the previously published article, An overview of SQL String Functions . This time, we will describe another bunch of SQL string functions used in SQL Server.

Posted on January 10, 2020

One of the most asked questions is how to link an OLAP cube with a relational database, or in another way how to join the result of an MDX query with a table stored in a relational database. In this article, we will illustrate how to link a SQL Server... [Read More]