Lift and shift is a bridge. If your enterprise is considering migrating enterprise data and data integration workloads from on-premises to the cloud, lifting and shifting is not the end of the story. Lifting and shifting is, rather, the mechanism – the conversion project – that positions your enterprise to leverage the economies of scale …
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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. :{>
Enterprise Data & Analytics Welcomes Shannon Lowder!
I am honored and thrilled to welcome Shannon Lowder (@shannonlowder | blog | LinkedIn) to the Enterprise Data & Analytics team! Shannon is a data engineer, data scientist, BimlHero (though not listed on the page at the time of this writing), and shepherd of the Biml Interrogator open source project. If you use Biml to generate SSIS …
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Grant SSIS Catalog Read-Only Permissions
The SSIS Catalog has built-in security to manage permissions. SSISDB – the database behind the SSIS Catalog – is “just a database” in many respects. When it comes to security, the SSIS Catalog surfaces an internal mechanism that provides granular permissions management. In this post I intend to demonstrate how to use SSIS Catalog security to …
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Presenting Moving Data with Azure Data Factory in Richmond 7 Feb!
I’m honored to deliver Moving Data with Azure Data Factory to Azure Richmond Virginia Thursday, 7 Feb 2019 starting at 6:30 PM! The meeting will be held at Markel Plaza – 4600 Cox Road · Glen Allen, VA. Learn more at Meetup… I hope to see you there! :{>
Join me For Expert SSIS Training!
I’m honored to announce Expert SSIS – a course from Enterprise Data & Analytics! The next delivery is 01-02 Apr 2019, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET. Data integration is the foundation of data science, business intelligence, and enterprise data warehousing. This instructor-led training class is specifically designed for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) professionals …
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The 2:00 AM Test
I’m working with a collection of clients these days providing data integration, cloud, and DevOps advice. I love architecture work! My clients love the results. Everyone wins. Kent Bradshaw and I are tag-teaming with a couple clients who are converting data integration from other platforms to SSIS. In a recent meeting Kent mentioned “the 2:00 …
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Two ADF Presentations Next Week!
I am honored to deliver Moving Data with Azure Data Factory to two User Groups next week! Abstract Azure Data Factory – ADF – is a cloud data engineering solution. ADF version 2 sports a snappy web GUI (graphical user interface) and supports the SSIS Integration Runtime (IR) – or “SSIS in the Cloud.” Attend this session …
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Want to Learn More About Azure Data Factory?
From me? I am honored to announce Fundamentals of Azure Data Factory – a course from Enterprise Data & Analytics! The next delivery is 04 Mar 2019, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET. Azure Data Factory, or ADF, is an Azure PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) that provides hybrid data integration at global scale. Use ADF to build …
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Testing SSIS Catalog Compare v4.5
I just posted a preview of the next version of SSIS Catalog Compare at the brand new DILM Suite blog. You can head on over and check out the video is you have five minutes to spare. I’ll let you in on a secret: the star of the show is the new SCCPAC Deployment Wizard: …
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Thinking of You…
The holidays are a joyous and happy time of year. Almost everyone struggles in some way with the holidays, though. There are numerous posts about how to have difficult conversations with family who disagree with you on some matter or other – usually politics or religion. For some folks, though, it’s worse. Some struggle with …
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