This week on Data Driven, Frank and I are honored to interview Donald Farmer, founder of TreeHive Strategy! In this episode, we talk with Donald Farmer about data, profiting off ambiguity, fish farming, and Die Hard. Oh yeah, and tree houses. Notable Quotes Frank talks Star Wars. (1:40) Donald is more interested in the six-pointers. …
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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. :{>
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.
What a Launch Week for Data Driven!
Wow! We had a fantastic launch week for the Data Driven podcast! Thank you to everyone who’s listened (and everyone who will listen). I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our amazing guests: Jen Underwood, Nick Harris, and Lynn Langit. If you’re thinking of launching a podcast, I highly recommend these three guests to …
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New Data Driven Podcast: Lynn Langit’s Excellent Data Adventure
Frank La Vigne and I are launching Data Driven this week. We are honored Lynn Langit (website | LinkedIn Learning) agreed to be our third guest! Lynn was an awesome guest! We talked about how data science is being used for bioinformatics and genomics research, potential implications of having your DNA sequenced, and hacking. Check …
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New Data Driven Podcast: Nick Harris on the Business Impact of Data
Frank La Vigne and I are launching Data Driven this week. We are honored Nick Harris, Corporate Strategist for McKesson Medial agreed to be our second guest! Nick, Frank, and I have been friends for a dozen years and it shows as the interview progresses – especially when we start talking Demolition Man! Check out …
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New Data Driven Podcast: Jen Underwood on Data Visualization and Automating Data Science
Frank La Vigne and I are launching Data Driven this week. We are honored Jen Underwood (blog | Impact Analytix) agreed to be our very first guest! Jen was an awesome guest! We talked about unicorns, the relationship between data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, blogging, and unicorns. Check out the show! :{> Learn …
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Announcing Data Driven–a New Data Science Podcast!
I am honored to announce Data Driven – a new Data Science podcast hosted by Frank La Vigne (blog | @Tableteer) and me! Visit our site and: Check out new episodes. Learn more from the DataDriven blog. Become a Data Driver! Learn more about the show! To start off the podcast, Frank and I recorded …
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Building Custom Tasks for SQL Server Integration Services is Available for Pre-Order
My next book titled Building Custom Tasks for SQL Server Integration Services is available for pre-order! The current release date is scheduled for late July 2017. The Cost of Custom SSIS Tasks There is overhead associated with using custom tasks in SSIS. When I started writing, I believed there were three costs associated with custom …
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Passively Mine SSIS Data Flow Rows Loaded From the SSIS Catalog
As I wrote in Parsing SSIS Catalog Messages for Lookup Performance, v2: I prefer to passively gather performance metrics – even if it’s a little convoluted and more work (for me). I don’t often need these metrics immediately available, so I execute queries similar to the query below and store the performance metrics in a …
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Presenting Use Biml to Automate SSIS Design Patterns at SQL Saturday Dublin 17 Jun!
I am honored to present Use Biml to Automate SSIS Design Patterns at SQL Saturday 620 – Dublin 17 Jun! Abstract Perhaps you’ve heard the buzz about Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) and wondered, “Why is everyone so excited about Biml?” Occasionally, a new technology emerges that changes everything. For SSIS developers, Biml is one …
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Presenting A Day of Intelligent Data Integration Precon at SQL Saturday Dublin!
I am honored to present my day-long precon titled SSIS Design Patterns and Biml: A Day of Intelligent Data Integration at SQL Saturday 620 – Dublin 15 Jun 2017! Description What is Intelligent Data Integration? SSIS packages developed using tried and true design patterns, built to participate in a DevOps enterprise practicing DILM, produced using …
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