Free Stuff for People Who Give Back: Announcing 2019 Scholarships

Do you work for a charity or non-profit organization? Submit your application today. I haven’t advertised this in the past and… I’m not sure why: I donate licenses for SSIS Catalog Compare and (non-free) SSIS Framework Editions – and subscriptions to Biml Academy and SSIS Academy – and Enterprise Data & Analytics Training – to individuals who …
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Using SSIS Framework Community Edition Webinar 20 Sep

Join me 20 Sep 2018 at noon ET for a free webinar titled Using SSIS Framework Community Edition! Abstract SSIS Framework Community Edition is free and open source. You may know can use SSIS Framework Community Edition to execute a collection of SSIS packages using a call to a single stored procedure passing a single …
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Introducing Azure Data Factory Design Patterns

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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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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