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Brian Lawton

Brian Lawton is an independent consultant specializing in data warehousing and in solving the design, implementation, and deployment challenges created when integrating OLTP databases with their applications. He is an MCSE, an MCDBA, and an MCSD.
Email: brian.k.lawton@redtailcreek.com

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Smart Data Validation

By Brian Lawton, 09/21/2006

Regardless of the size and speed of your database, if you can’t trust your data, it’s useless. Learn how you can use some basic database best practices to set up your database and ...

Buried Treasure in Your Backyard

By Brian Lawton, 05/26/2004

With SQL Server 2005 still on the distant horizon, how can you get the most out of your SQL Server 2000 system today? Dig into these seven valuable and often overlooked features.

Mastering DTS

By Brian Lawton, 12/19/2001

DTS can jumpstart your career by helping you master ETL implementation.

DTS Scripts and Tricks

By Brian Lawton, 12/20/1999

Put DTS through its paces by applying these common scripting patterns to package development, including invoking a package from within another package, accessing properties the ...

Data Warehousing: Back to Basics

By Brian Lawton, 12/20/1999

Careful planning can make your data warehouse a success. Use these tips and tricks for planning a successful data-warehousing project.

DTS: Error Handling Revealed

By Brian Lawton, 11/01/1999

Find out how DTS deals with errors, and you'll be on your way to building robust custom packages.

Standalone DTS

By Brian Lawton, 10/23/1999

Discover how to leverage DTS’ power and flexibility in a non-SQL Server environment.

Creating DTS Custom Transformations

By Brian Lawton, 10/01/1999

Custom transformations in DTS offer powerful maintainability, functionality, and performance. Here's an example showing how you can use a Visual C++ extension to build a custom ...

Constructing DTS Custom Tasks

By Brian Lawton, 09/01/1999

We explain how to use custom packages to leverage the DTS object model further by examining custom tasks, what they are, and why you might use them. We then detail how to build a ...

DTS Development Handbook, Part 2

By Brian Lawton, 09/01/1999

The DTS masters guide you through common development problems, including timestamp data types.

Migrating from SQL Server 6.5 to 7.0

By Brian Lawton, 08/01/1999

The SQL Server Magazine migration alerts you to compatibility conflicts you'll encounter in migrating from SQL Sever 6.5 to 7.0

The DTS Development Guide

By Brian Lawton, 07/01/1999

Do you have a DTS question about error handling, package execution, extensibility, or data-driven queries? You're not alone. Let our experts help!

Pump Up the Power of DTS

By Brian Lawton, 06/01/1999

Leverage the power of Data Transformation Services (DTS) by using its native COM interfaces.

Unleash the Power of DTS

By Brian Lawton, 05/01/1999

Data Transformation Services (DTS) is a SQL Server 7.0 utility service that provides import, export, and data manipulation capabilities between OLE DB, ODBC, and ASCII data stores.

Using DTS to Populate a Data Warehouse

By Brian Lawton, 04/01/1999

Learn how DTS attacks two troublesome warehousing tasks, data acquisition and data transformation, and how easily you can use the DTS Package Designer to script a package.

Introduction to Data Transformation Services

By Brian Lawton, 03/01/1999

DTS provides a fast, robust, extensible architecture for moving data out of traditional relational databases and into Microsoft's new SQL Server OLAP Services.



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