Honored to Present at (Virtual) SQL Saturday Richmond (And a Cool Announcement)

17 Apr 2020 UPDATE: You can listen to Stevie Ray share about his presentation (and more) in this episode of the Data Driven Podcast: Stephen Leonard on STEM and the Frustration Inherent to Engineering. Or you can listen right here! I am honored and excited to deliver Azure DevOps and the SSIS Development Lifecycle at …
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Learn Azure Data Factory and SSIS and Save Money!

I am excited to announce two additional live, online training deliveries: SSIS Data Flows – 27-28 May 2020 SSIS Administration – 02-03 Jun 2020. Note: SSIS Data Flows is a prerequisite for SSIS Administration. SSIS Data Flows is the first two days of my four-day live, online From Zero To SSIS course – which I …
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Moving Data with ADF Recording is Available!

I (re-)delivered the free webinar titled “Moving Data with Azure Data factory” 6 Apr 2020. I can hear you thinking, “Why did you re-deliver the webinar, Andy?” I failed to capture the recording when I first delivered the webinar 31 Mar 2020. It was all my fault. Apologies. Enjoy this recording! :{>

Free Training for People Who Have Lost Their Jobs

Update: I am unable to offer free training to people who lost their job due to the pandemic at this time. Thank you to everyone who took advantage of this offer. I hope the training helped. – Andy   I saw a tweet earlier today from another friend who has been laid off as a …
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Source-Control SSIS Catalog Contents in Azure DevOps

I did a thing – actually a couple things – that I’ve been dreaming about for a while. In a couple recent blog posts – SSIS Catalog Compare Enterprise Generates SCCPAC Files and Azure DevOps, Software Development, and Git Part 4 – Command-Line with Azure DevOps – I walked through one way to source-control the …
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Azure DevOps, Software Development, and Git Part 4 – Command-Line with Azure DevOps

I’m writing about my journey with git, sharing my experiences along the way. The series to date: Azure DevOps, SSIS, and Git Part 0 – Getting Started Azure DevOps, Software Development, and Git Part 1 – Applied Azure DevOps, Software Development, and Git Part 2 – Distributed Version Control Azure DevOps, Software Development, and Git …
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