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Unable to view webinar recordings

5/27/2010 by SMcDonald  -  Comments: 1  -  Views: [1858]

At my company we facilitate/sponsor free monthly webinars for the BI community. After those webinars are over, you have the opportunity to go back to view those recordings at a later date(not past two months of the original recorded date). Sometimes what can happen is somebody will send us an email saying they are unable to view those recordings. When troubleshooting begins, the first thing we suggest t rying to view the recording from home. Due to firewalls at your company, that could prevent y...

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Configuring your FTP Task

5/23/2010 by SMcDonald  -  Comments: 0  -  Views: [4609]

Let's do a step by step on how to configure your FTP Task: Double click your task Select the drop down for FTP Connection Create a new connection 4. Select the name of your server 5. Enter your server port 6. Under Credentials: If that server requires user name and Password, enter here 7. The Time out option lets you decide you want to wait for it to attempt to connect before it fails (60 seconds is the default) 8. Retries is where you select how many attempts you want it to make 9. The default ...

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Pragmatic Works Foundation

5/11/2010 by SMcDonald  -  Comments: 0  -  Views: [1425]

In this recession a lot of people are probably scared to go back to school and incur more debt. However, you are desperately looking forward to a career change and you want to head down the path of Information Technology. Our company, Pragmatic Works, has created a non-profit division called Pragmatic Works Foundation. We created this to find passionate people who want to or are considering joining the I.T. industry. We are now offering a free week of I.T. training for a group of selected indivi...

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How I found my Expressions

5/7/2010 by SMcDonald  -  Comments: 0  -  Views: [1571]

I was working in SSIS today and was supposed to change some expressions in the packages. Well, I am really....really new to SSIS and didn't really know how to go about looking for expressions. One of my counterparts told me to use Expression Highlighter in BIxPress. So, just to show you what it would look like before we use the expressions highlighter: Now, if we used the expression highlighter, this is what it would look like: What this has done for me was help me easily identify where my expre...

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SQL SATURDAY

5/5/2010 by SMcDonald  -  Comments: 0  -  Views: [1158]

I want to reach out to all the women who are in the I.T. community or is interested in starting a new career path in I.T. Please come to SQL Saturday this Saturday morning. This is a FREE day of I.T. training as well as an opportunity for great networking and a chance to connect with recruiters. Please register at www.sqlsaturday.com . The sessions will begin at 9am and if I were you, I would get there as early as 8am for check-in. We have a large number of people that are attending and you will...

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