Frank and I had the honor of speaking with Dave Wentzel on the Importance of Design Thinking. Enjoy! :{>
Author:Andy Leonard
Christian, husband, dad, grandpa, Data Philosopher, Data Engineer; Azure Data Factory, Fabric Data Factory, and SSIS guy; and farmer. I was cloud before cloud was cool. :{>
Twenty years of watching SSIS catalog drift, environment mismatches, and deployment chaos finally has a name: Data Integration Lifecycle Management. I build tools for it at DILM Suite. Start with SSIS Catalog Compare.
AndyStream for 9 Nov 2021
Frank and I are on Day 7 of 1,000 days, a new thing we started 02 Nov 2021 to remind us time is not fungible and we should build – and stick to – atomic habits and systems of execution. This morning I popped on for a few minutes to share information about the PASS …
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AndyStream for 8 Nov 2021
Frank and I are on Day 6 of 1,000 days, a new thing we started 02 Nov 2021 to remind us time is not fungible and we should build – and stick to – atomic habits and systems of execution. This morning I popped on for a few minutes to share information about the PASS …
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AndyStream for 7 Nov 2021
Frank and I are on Day 5 of 1,000 days, a new thing we started 02 Nov 2021 to remind us time is not fungible and we should build – and stick to – systems of execution. This morning I popped on for a few minutes to (again) share information about Enterprise Data & Analytics‘ …
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AndyStream for 6 Nov 2021
Frank and I are on Day 4 of 1,000 days, a new thing we started 02 Nov 2021 to remind us time is not fungible and we should build – and stick to – systems of execution. This morning I popped on for a few minutes to shared information about Enterprise Data & Analytics‘ commercial …
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AndyStream for 5 Nov 2021
AndyStream for 05 Nov 2021 includes book recommendations.
Why I Rarely Criticize
First, I do criticize. Sometimes I criticize publicly. Please realize my public criticism follows a series of events that has involved private criticism. In Business Some criticism in business is comparison. Other criticism is competition. I recently learned about “negative SEO.” I must admit, my reaction was part horror and part nausea. “Why would anyone …
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Announcing The Data Channel
Over the past year (almost)m Frank and I have been working on something to which we’ve alluded as “Project Ring Gate” because we a re complete nerds and enjoy The Expanse books and television series. Frank made the cool videos at the beginning and end of this post. He’s been making cool videos for a …
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New SSIS Extension v3.15 for Visual Studio 2019
On 16 Aug 2021, the Microsoft SSIS Team released version 3.15 of the Integration Services extension for Visual Studio 2019: SQL Server Integration Services Projects extension for Visual Studio 2019, but there is an issue that has triggered a warning. I am late getting this update published. Visual Studio 2019 v16.11.4 is now available… …
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Video Coding and Loading Leonard Greenhouse Data
I had some time over the weekend to work on a process to capture weather measurements from an IoT instrument pack Stevie Ray recently constructed. You can learn more about what he did over at his blog – StephenRayLeonard.com – in a post titled The Modern Back Yard Greenhouse Begins With IoT. Although I did …
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