EasyQuery is SAP´s newest technology for providing external access to SAP BW via Web Services. Unfortunately there is not a whole lot information out there on how to actually call an EasyQuery Web Service other than from SAP standard tools like BO Design Studio, etc.So here I’ll give a detailed introduction on how to call[…]
In my experience working with flat files in Microsoft Integration Services can be quite cumbersome sometimes. There are numerous swtiches and options that can be configured to smoothly load CSV files into your database. Configuring things the wrong way may cause your ETL process to crash in case a CSV file changes its structure or[…]
In my experience working with flat files in Microsoft Integration Services can be quite cumbersome sometimes. There are numerous swtiches and options that can be configured to smoothly load CSV files into your database. Configuring things the wrong way may cause your ETL process to crash in case a CSV file changes its structure or[…]
In my previous Post I did describe what needs to be considered to implement a fast and stable delta load process. In this post I am going to introduce a tool that will help you to implement such a process within a couple of minutes. The SqlDeltaGenerator is basically a wizard that will create all the[…]
This article describes two different approaches for loading data from a source system into a staging area of a Business Intelligence system. Full Load and Delta Load. Both approaches can be used to load a table like structure like below from either a database table, a CSV file or a Web Service into a staging table.[…]
I recently had some trouble while installing Microsoft demo database „AdventureWorks“. I will sum up briefly what exactly went wrong and how to work around it. First question was what exactly needed to be downloaded. So go to Codeplex and download AdventureWorksDW2012 Data File and also AdventureWorks Multidimensional Models SQL Server 2012 The Data File is the SQL Server[…]