Hadi Fadlallah

Hadi Fadlallah
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Download Manticore search for Windows 64-bit

Manticore search: a continuation of the Sphinx search engine

September 14, 2020 by

In this article, we will be talking about Manticore Search, which is an open-source search engine first released in 2017 as a fork of the Sphinx search engine. We will try to describe this search engine briefly, mention some of its differences from the Sphinx search engine, and we will provide a step-by-step guide on how to build full-text indexes from SQL Server databases. Finally, we will show how to connect to the Manticore engine from the SQL Server management studio using a linked server object. In our previously published articles in this series, we talked briefly about the Sphinx search engine and how to create full-text indexes from SQL Server databases.

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Class hierarchy for the data flow engine in EzApi

Biml alternatives: Building SSIS packages programmatically using EzAPI

March 26, 2020 by

In the previously published article, Biml alternatives: Building SSIS packages programmatically using ManagedDTS, we talked about building SSIS packages using the managed object model of the SSIS engine (ManagedDTS). In this article, we will illustrate another Biml alternative, which is the EzApi class library, and we will make a comparison between both technologies.

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The control flow of the package created using ManagedDTS

Biml alternatives: Building SSIS packages programmatically using ManagedDTS

March 25, 2020 by

In the previously published articles in this series, we have explained how to use Biml to create and manage SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages. In this article, we will talk about the first alternative of this markup language which is the Integration Services managed object model (ManagedDTS and related assemblies) provided by Microsoft.

In this article, we will first illustrate how to create, save and execute SSIS packages using ManagedDTS in C#, then we will do a small comparison with Biml.

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Adding a new Biml script to the solution

Using Biml scripts to generate SSIS packages

March 13, 2020 by

In the previous article, Converting SSIS packages to Biml scripts, we explained how to convert existing SSIS packages into Biml scripts using Import Packages tool and we mentioned that this could be an efficient way to learn this markup language since it lets the user compare between the well-known SSIS objects found in the package and the correspondent elements in the generated scripts.

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Create SSIS package control flow screenshot

Converting SSIS packages to Biml scripts

March 13, 2020 by

In our previous article, Getting started with Biml, we have explained what Biml is, what are the related tools and resources and how to get started with this technology. In this article, we will explain how to generate scripts from existing SSIS packages by showing all related options. Then, we will analyze the generated script and identify how each object is mentioned in the script.

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connecting to SSAS OLAP cube using SSIS connection manager

Manipulating SSAS OLAP cubes using SSIS

February 12, 2020 by

There are many operations that we may run while working with OLAP cubes such as cube and partitions processing, executing administrative tasks, performing analysis and more… Three query languages that are used to run these operations: multidimensional expressions (MDX), data mining expressions (DMX) and XML for Analysis (XMLA). We can mainly write and execute these queries in SQL Server Management Studio, but many times we need to implement them within a flow that executes other tasks over other services (database engine, file system…)

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