Steven Wright Blog

Introduction As I have mentioned in several previous posts, I have been working on a data warehouse project. One of my main roles within this project was to work with our clients JRules / Java consultants to help integrate IBM JRules, a rules engine, with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2: Integration Services (SSIS). The goal of the integration was to have the rules engine as part of the ETL process to help evaluate business rules. The reasons to use a rules engine within the ETL process were as follows: To allow business people to write the business rules for the data warehouse in a language they know: English To give the business people the responsibility for maintaining the rules to ensure that the data warehouse is up to date. To be able to update the rules without having to deploy the entire ETL solution. IBM JRules was used within the project because it was already in use within their organisation. The challenge was how to cross the divide between Java and Microsoft .Net...

I have been working on a POC using SQL Server 2008 and Google Maps.  The POC was to use Geo Spatial technology to illustrate our Geo Spatial data easily.   I will talk about this in more detail in another blog post as I would like talk about a problem I faced while creating this POC.  The problem I faced was how could I get my Geo Spatial data, which was stored within SQL Server 2008 using the new geography data type, into  "static" HTML? So I thought that SQL Server HTTP Endpoints for SQL would be great thing to use to solve this problem.   As all I was after was xml document to stream over HTTP.   There was no business logic needed so all the .Net would be is just another layer acting as go between.  Also I didn’t what to waste time on what code which wouldn’t have added any value. So I created my stored procedure to produce an XML document that I found usable by using the For XML Path.  Then I started to look at h...