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Once you've loaded a Power Query, how do you change your load options?
Posted by Andy Brown on 01 April 2015
When you've created a Power Query in Excel, you can close it and load the resultant data. But how do you then change how the query loads? This blog explains how!
Installing the Microsoft Date and Time Picker for VBA
Posted by Andrew Gould on 24 February 2015
Some versions of Windows don't include the very useful Date and Time Picker control. This blog explains how to install the mscomct2.ocx file to get it back!
Using DAX Studio to edit calculated fields or measures in Excel
Posted by Andy Brown on 20 February 2015
The editor for calculated fields in Excel (aka measures) isn't the greatest; this blog shows you how to install and use DAX Studio as a substitute editor.
Ideas for encrypting data in transit in SSIS
Posted by Andy Brown on 08 February 2015
How can you encrypt data flowing within an Integration Services package? We don't think you can, but here are a couple of ideas.
How to send an email to every person in a SQL Server table
Posted by Andy Brown on 30 January 2015
This blog explains how to send an email to every person returned from a SQL query.
How to refer to parameters by name, not number, in SSIS
Posted by Andy Brown on 30 January 2015
Referring to parameters by their numeric position in a list in SSIS is relatively easy, but there is a way to refer to them by name too, as explained in this blog.
Getting at file attributes from FOREACH loop in SSIS
Posted by Andy Brown on 30 January 2015
SSIS makes it easy to loop over files, but it's less obvious how to get at file attributes such as the date created or last modified date. To do this you'll need a scripting task, as explained by this blog.
How to insert ActiveX controls after CANNOT INSERT OBJECT message
Posted by Andy Brown on 29 January 2015
When using Excel, we owls have had problems inserting ActiveX objects after recent security updates. Here's a solution which worked for us!
What's new in Analysis Services 2012 versus 2008 R2
Posted by Andy Brown on 19 December 2014
If you're creating multidimensional models (as you probably will be), Analysis Services has barely changed between versions 2008 R2 and 2012 - and the small differences are mostly in the favour of the older version. This blog plays spot-the-difference between Analysis Services 2008 R2 and 2012.
Steps to follow when creating a new flat file in SSIS
Posted by Andy Brown on 04 December 2014
Using an existing flat file in SSIS is straightforward, but creating a new one can be a pain - this blogs gives some steps to follow.
A short blog showing that SSIS 2014 is the same as 2012
Posted by Andy Brown on 27 November 2014
Possibly the shortest Wise Owl blog, listing the changes between Integration Services 2012 and 2014 (there aren't any!).
A detailed blog exploring what's new in SSIS 2012
Posted by Andy Brown on 27 November 2014
If you're wondering whether to upgrade to Integration Services 2012, or just want to know what differences there are between SSIS 2008 R2 and 2012, this blog should help you!
Posted by Andrew Gould on 31 October 2014
This blog serves as the main index for our complete tutorial on programming in Visual C#. You'll find links to all of the articles, videos and files that you'll need to follow the tutorial.
An under-the-hood look at how the new Wise Owl website works
Posted by Andy Brown on 08 October 2014
This blog summarises the technology used to make this website appear on your screen, including ASP.NET MVC, SCSS, responsive website design and entity data models.
Addiction to the 2048 mobile phone app
Posted by Andy Brown on 08 October 2014
One owl's sad story of addiction to a simple computer game: a tale of lost time and lost sanity.
Teacher training: learning how to code at school
Posted by Andy Brown on 08 October 2014
How Wise Owl training courses can help teachers to fulfil the new UK National Curriculum requirement to teach all schoolchildren how to program.
VBA code to create a chart and textbox, and copy them to Word
Posted by Andy Brown on 03 October 2014
Charts in VBA are a bit weird: this blogs highlights some of their foibles, by showing how charts are really just special shapes, which contain shapes of their own!
Programmatically searching websites using VBA
Posted by Andy Brown on 19 September 2014
I've already pinched (with permission!) the ideas of Fergus Cairns to explain ways to run automatic searches on popular websites like Google; this blog gives an update on the same topic.
What does the SCD transform in SSIS do, and should you use it?
Posted by Andy Brown on 05 July 2014
Integration Services include a Slowly Changing Dimension transform, which is designed to make loading dimension data easier. This blog explains how it works, and discusses whether it achieves its objectives.
How to create a simple website in ASP.NET MVC
Posted by Andy Brown on 16 June 2014
This blog explains the steps you'll need to follow to create a simple one page website in ASP.NET MVC. The aim of the blog is not to act as a tutorial, but to help people choose between ASP.NET MVC and classic ASP.NET.