I was honored to write an article titled Introducing Azure Data Factory Design Patterns featured in this month’s PASS Insights newsletter! Introducing Azure Data Factory Design Patterns The article covers a couple execution patterns: Execute Child Pipeline Execute Child SSIS Package I demonstrate a cool SSIS Catalog Browser feature that helps ADF developers configure the Execute SSIS Package activity. To …
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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. :{>
AndyWeather Internet of Things (IoT)
AndyWeather.com is a site I’ve maintained for about 10 years now. I use the site and related hardware, software, and services to test concepts and perform experiments. I then apply my experience in delivering Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for Enterprise Data & Analytics customers and for SSIS and Biml training, such as my upcoming course titled …
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Announcing the Fundamentals of Azure Data Factory Course!
I am excited to announce a brand new course (it still has that new course smell) from Brent Ozar Unlimited and honored to deliver it! This one-day, live, online course is titled Fundamentals of Azure Data Factory and it’s designed to introduce you to Azure Data Factory (ADF). There will be demos. Live demos. Lots …
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T-SQL Tuesday #106: Regarding Triggers
In my experience, people either love or hate triggers in Transact-SQL. As a consultant, I get to see some interesting solutions involving triggers. In one case, I saw several thousand lines of T-SQL in a single trigger. My first thought was, “I bet there’s a different way to do that.” I was right. The people …
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Change to the SSMS Create Catalog Dialog
I’m glad to see a change in the Create Catalog dialog for creating an instance of an SSIS Catalog using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) version 17.9. The “Enable this server as SSIS scale out master” checkbox is now unchecked by default: I’m not sure if this changed in SSMS version 17.9 or an earlier …
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Enterprise Data & Analytics and Andy Leonard Consulting
I occasionally get questions about my companies (yes, plural) so I thought I’d write a post explaining them. Enterprise Data & Analytics Enterprise Data & Analytics is a boutique consulting firm. I own the company and I also deliver consulting services. We have a team of experienced engineers who deliver everything from cloud data migrations to …
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Agile Bashing
I keep reading posts about how agile died. And I get it. All I ask is one small favor: Please don’t confuse agile with mis- implementations that go by the same name. Is agile for everyone? Every business? Every project? Goodness no! But… Agile recognizes some uncomfortable facts about delivering software. For some projects, the …
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Time and Money in the Cloud
What Could Your Enterprise Do With Extra Time? Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, “Time is money.” The 2011 movie, In Time, depicts an entire economy based on time. (A friend pointed out that time is not fungible, but I digress…) So, what could your enterprise do with more time? When you think about it, …
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SSIS Catalog Browser and Azure Data Factory
I just posted this fun little video (77 seconds) to my LinkedIn feed! It was fun to make and I really like building solutions for the Community. Feedback much appreciated, including suggestions for functionality you’d like to see added to SSIS Catalog Browser. :{>
SSIS Catalog Compare Documentation is Available
I’m excited to announce the availability of SSIS Catalog Compare Documentation! And now, it’s free!