The following enhancements have been made in Dimodelo Data Warehouse Studio 2015 2.9: Monitor and Analyse your ETL batches. Dimodelo now writes its ETL batch execution log to an SQL Server database. New PowerBI dashboards have been created to help you monitor and analyse your ETL batches. Support for ODBC Sources. Connect to just about…
As professionals, anything that makes our job significantly easier, can be conceived as a threat. I must be honest, when Microsoft started on its journey of ‘Self Service BI’, PowerPivot, PowerView etc, I perceived this as a threat, and as a watering down of my skillset. However there is two truths that you can’t get away…
Jet Reports have written an interesting article on Data Warehouse Automation. It appears this concept is gaining recognition. TDWI has also recognized the value of Data Warehouse Automation, as one of the emerging trends for 2015 and beyond. I’ve also written an introduction article on the who, what, where, when and why of Data Warehouse Automation….
This post shows you how to use EzAPI to load and modify an existing SSIS package. Create a template SSIS packages, and generate a suite of packages from the template. As far as I can tell, this is the first time this really useful feature of EzAPI has been documented. Its always been hinted at in…
In this tutorial you will learn how to use Dimodelo Data Warehouse Studio to:
Create a new Data Warehouse project.
Create a connection to a Source System.
Use the Wizard to generate the Meta Data for a Data Warehouse and its Extract, Transform and Load processes (ETL).
Generate the code to create the Data Warehouse and Staging databases, and the ETL to move data from the source through to the Data Warehouse.
Deploy the code to the Server.
Execute the ETL batch.
This post describes how to use MSBUILD to automate the build and deployment of a SSAS Analysis Services Cube. This solution relies on calling Visual Studio (devenv.exe) from within MSBUILD to first build the Cube and then using the SSAS deployment wizard from the command line to deploy the Cube. The first thing to understand…
