Updates to Three DILM Suite Applications

It’s been a busy couple weeks here at Enterprise Data & Analytics in Farmville. I just published updates to not one, not two, but three – yes, three! – applications that are part of the Data Integration Lifecycle Management Suite, or DILM Suite. SSIS Framework Community Edition To prepare for Thursday’s (12 Jul 2018) webinar titled …
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Free Webinar – Designing a Custom ADF SSIS Execution Framework

Folks, I’m not going to even pretend to be cool and collected about this webinar about designing an ADF SSIS Execution Framework. I’ve been waiting for this one for a loooooooong time! The next (free!) webinar in the series I’m calling the Summer-O’-ADF is Designing a Custom ADF SSIS Execution Framework. It’s at noon EDT Thursday …
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100 Dumb Little Things

Software development is hard. It takes time, yes. But more than that, software development takes patience and thought and blood and sweat and love and tears. My friends at Varigence recently released an update to their Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) products. If you’re into business intelligence or data science, integration, or engineering, you should …
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How I Build an SSIS Test Virtual Machine

I use VirtualBox for my hypervisor engine. I started using it years ago when it was the first free hypervisor I found that supported 64-bit guests. In this post I share some thoughts about testing SSIS using a test virtual machine (VM). There are other awesome hypervisor platforms out there. In setting up a virtual …
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Two Recordings Available: SSIS Catalog and SSIS Lifecycle

Andy Leonard shares two recordings about using the SSIS Catalog to manage enterprise data engineering.

You Might Need an SSIS Framework

You might need an SSIS framework. “How can I tell if I need an SSIS framework, Andy?” I’m glad you asked. Does your enterprise: Practice DevOps? Execute lots of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages? Execute SSIS packages several times per day? Execute “SSIS in the Cloud” using the Azure Data Factory version 2 Integration …
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On Output…

I’m going to be a little bold in this post and suggest if you are developing for SQL Server, the screenshot to the left and above shows something that is, well, wrong. I can hear you thinking, “What’s Wrong With That Output, Andy?” I’m glad you asked. I will answer with a question: What just …
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