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Hadi Fadlallah
connecting to SSAS OLAP cube using SSIS connection manager

Manipulating SSAS OLAP cubes using SSIS

February 12, 2020 by

There are many operations that we may run while working with OLAP cubes such as cube and partitions processing, executing administrative tasks, performing analysis and more… Three query languages that are used to run these operations: multidimensional expressions (MDX), data mining expressions (DMX) and XML for Analysis (XMLA). We can mainly write and execute these queries in SQL Server Management Studio, but many times we need to implement them within a flow that executes other tasks over other services (database engine, file system…)

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Dinesh Asanka
Dependancy Network tab in the Mining view in the Association Rule

Association Rule Mining in SQL Server

January 28, 2020 by

Association Rule Mining in SQL Server is the next article in our data mining article series in which we have discussed Naïve Bayes, Decision Trees, and Time Series until now. Association Rule Mining, also known as Market Basket Analysis, mainly because Association Mining is used to find out the items which are bought together by the customers during their shopping.

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Dinesh Asanka
Data types for selected attributes in Time Series Model

Microsoft Time Series in SQL Server

December 12, 2019 by

The next topic in our Data Mining series is the popular algorithm, Time Series. Since business users want to forecast values for areas like production, sales, profit, etc., with a time parameter, Time Series has become an important data mining tool. It essentially allows analyzing the past behavior of a variable over time in order to predict its future behavior.

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Emil Drkusic

Learn SQL: INSERT INTO TABLE

December 12, 2019 by

In the previous article, we’ve created two tables, and now we’re ready to use the SQL INSERT INTO TABLE command and populate these tables with data. In order to do so, we’ll prepare statements in Excel and then paste these statements into SQL Server and execute them. We’ll also check the contents of both tables before and after these commands using the SELECT statement. So, let’s start.

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Hadi Fadlallah
the general tab page of the execute sql task

SQL OFFSET FETCH Feature: Loading Large Volumes of Data Using Limited Resources with SSIS

November 14, 2019 by

In this article, we illustrate how to use the OFFSET FETCH feature as a solution for loading large volumes of data from a relational database using a machine with limited memory and preventing an out of memory exception. We describe how to load data in batches to avoid placing a large amount of data into memory.

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Hadi Fadlallah
This image shows how XML value was sent in one row to the flat file destination that acts as SSIS XML Destination

SSIS XML Destination

October 11, 2019 by

Until now, Microsoft has not included the XML Destination component in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Many years ago, this component was requested on the Microsoft connect website, but it was closed as “Won’t fix.” For this reason, many workarounds and third-party components were created. In this article, we’ll talk about these components and some of the popular solutions for exporting data to XML using SSIS.

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