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Task Factory Address Parse Transform
Addresses. They are one of the biggest headaches for any ETL developer. Trying to clean up poorly, inconsistently entered addresses can be a real headache. Fortunately the Address Parse Transform, part...
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Task Factory Case Transform
The Case Transform, an SSIS component in the Task Factory suite from Pragmatic Works, allows you to easy correct the capitalization mistakes found in many source systems. This video demonstrates how...
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Task Factory Upsert Destination
Inserting and updating records is, without a doubt, the most common operation performed in any SQL Server Integration Services package. What a headache though, having to determine if the record exists,...
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Task Factory XML Destination
XML has become the defacto standard for information exchange across the web. The Task Factory SSIS XML Destination, one of the many components found in Pragmatic Works’ Task Factory suite, makes it...
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Task Factory Trim Plus Transform
In previous videos, we’ve looked at some of the other data cleansing operations Pragmatic Works’ Task Factory offers, such as address parsing and case correction. Another common data cleansing task is...
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Task Factory Surrogate Key Transform
When extracting data, you don’t always a natural key handy. Sometimes the nature of the data negates any built in key, or perhaps there’s just not one present. For these situations the Task Factory...
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Task Factory Delete Batch Transform
When working with data, I often need to delete rows, but only rows for a specific set of keys I’m working with. The Task Factory SSIS Delete Batch Transform, from Pragmatic Works makes this easy. In...
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Task Factory E-Mail Source
Of all the components in Task Factory, by far the coolest is the E-Mail Source. Using this nifty component you can actually pull your data into SSIS from an E-Mail! In this video you can see the...
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Task Factory Regular Expression Transform
If you are a Regular Expression guru, you’ve probably wished you could use Regular Expressions within your SSIS Packages. With the Task Factory SSIS RegEx Replace Transform, part of the Task Factory...
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Task Factory Data Cleansing Transform
In past videos we’ve looked at the various Data Cleansing Transforms available in Task Factory. We looked at the case transform, and saw how it could handle correcting capitalization errors. We saw how...
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Task Factory Data Validation Transform
Task Factory is a suite of SSIS components available from Pragmatic Works. In this video we’ll look at the Data Validation Transform. In past videos we looked at using the various Data cleansing...
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Task Factory Update Batch Transform
Task Factory is a suite of SSIS components available from Pragmatic Works. In this video we’ll look at the Update Batch Transform. Updating data can be a real pain. You either have to setup a special...
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Task Factory Dimension Merge Slowly Changing Dimension
For any ETL developer, updating dimensional data is the heart of what you do. Using out of the box SSIS components, however, is an unattractive proposition. You either had to use the built in SCD...
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Pragmatic Works Virtual Mentoring
Have you ever been in a situation where you were stuck for an answer? I mean really stuck? I sure as heck have been. Being in a spot where I really needed an experts opinion, needed to be able to get...
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Task Factory–SharePoint Source
Microsoft SharePoint has taken the enterprise by storm. A staggering number of corporations today are using SharePoint as their collaborative and information backbone. A tremendous amount of...
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Task Factory–SharePoint Destination
In a previous video we looked at the SharePoint Source component, one of the many components in Pragmatic Works Task Factory suite of SSIS tools. We saw how easy it was to extract data out of a...
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Task Factory–SalesForce.com Source and Destination
Over the course of the last month I have created video tutorials on the components that ship with Pragmatic Works Task Factory suite of SSIS components. There are two though, that unfortunately I’m not...
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The Great Pragmatic Works Task Factory Round Up
Over the last month or so, I’ve been blogging about my companies (Pragmatic Works) cool suite of SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) add in tools called Task Factory. I did this mostly to learn...
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Arcane 2011 Year in Review
Seems most folks I know are doing “Year in Review” posts for their blogs. Not wanting to miss a chance to do a blatant rip-off I thought I’d jump on the band wagon. My MVP Award was renewed for 2011....
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Creating a Data Warehouse Date Id in Task Factory Advanced Derived Column...
The company I work for, Pragmatic Works, makes a great tool called Task Factory. It’s a set of transformations that plug into SQL Server Integration Services and provides a wealth of new controls you...
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