SSIS – Stopping an Error from Propagating to its Parent (Enabling an SSIS Package to continue when an error happens)
Due to our environment and packages we create, we have to enable the packages to continue even if it fails for some reason (Cannot connect to a Server for example) so that the rest of the data will be captured. In the past we configured the MaximumError count to be 100, but this is not ideal, because if another component…
SSIS – Fastest data flow task item for transferring data over the network
My goal was to find out which combination of data flow Source and Destinations would enable me to transfer data over a network as quickly and as efficiently as possible. · Below is what the outcome of the tests are · And then finally I have only detailed, based on the fastest data flow items how to configure the data…
SSIS – Automating SQL Server Backups, copying files and checking that they were copied
I had an issue where I lost all my backups. So what I have now created is an automated SQL Server backup process, which will back up all the databases, verify the backups, copy them to the required location. And then finally email the backup files copied to ensure that they are all there. …
SSIS & TSQL – Geo- location from IP Address to Country
Below are the details firstly from getting your Geo – location information from a table which has your IP Address to country information. And then getting your IP Address information from your source systems and quickly getting this to a Country so that you can see where the people are coming from. Geo – Location information There are a…
SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Error Creating Catalog Database
This is the error that I got when trying to create the SSIS Catalog Database in SQL Server 2012. The certificate, asymmetric key, or private key data is invalid. Changed database context to ‘SSISDB’. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15297) Just a quick background to how I got to the error when creating the SSIS Catalog database in SQL Server 2012….
DAX Function error – An argument of function ‘LEFT’ has the wrong data type or has an invalid value
Today I was working in SSAS Tabular Mode for SQL Server 2012. What my goal was, was to remove version numbers from Products. This was so that instead of having the following below in a report: Microsoft .Net Framework 1.x Microsoft .Net Framework 2.x Microsoft .Net Framework 3.x Microsoft .Net Framework 4.x I would have one name instead: Microsoft .Net…
Date Filtering in Excel from your Analysis Services Dimension
I recently had to set up another Date Dimension and went through the process of setting up all the properties in the date dimension so that when it is used in Excel, the end users would then be able to use the Date Filters built into Excel. The Excel Date Filters are very handy when creating Excel documents. As an…
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Invalid column name ‘xxx’.; 42S2
Yesterday I thought it would be a quick addition to add a new column to my Fact table. Then add the dimension to Analysis Services. And finally add the dimension to the cube. but I ran into the error below and after struggling for quite a while I found the issue. NOTE: This is possibly one of many solutions. I…
SSIS 2012 – Inserting data into a SQL Server Table from an MDX Query
The reason for this blog post, is I recently had a query if it was possible to get data returned from an MDX Query and then insert the data into a SQL Server Table. And the reason for putting it into SSIS was that we could schedule the job to run on a schedule. I have inserted pictures from my…
Date Filtering in Excel from your Analysis Services Tabular Model
Following on from how to format the date in Analysis Services UDM Model, today I found myself trying to do the same thing for the tabular model. Where Excel was viewing the dates as a label and not as an actual Date. And after some looking around it is fairly simple to implement so that you can then use the…