Back in Jun 2024, I announced I was changing the way I report updates to the SQL Server Integration Services extension for Visual Studio (in a post titled SSIS Extension Updates – Jun 2024). Right on time, here’s the second quarterly update. There Are Two Integration Services Extensions I’m not sure why the decision was …
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Announcing SSIS Catalog Browser v0.9.20
Kent Bradshaw and I are excited to announce the availability of SSIS Catalog Browser v0.9.20! SSIS Catalog Browser is free and surfaces SSIS Catalog projects and configurations metadata in a single unified view. The latest version fixed a handful of bugs, improved load query efficiency, and fixed duplication and misplacement of reference mappings in project and …
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Potential Danger Using Deploy Package with SSIS 2016
I… tweeted? X’d?… this message 11 Jul 2024. As promised, here’s the public post. If you want to skip some history mixed with the description of EDNA’s SSIS framework, feel free to go to the section labeled “Imagine My Surprise…” Some Back Story I have a long and storied history with frameworks. My ETL frameworks …
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SSIS Catalog Browser v0.9.14.0 is Available
I am honored to announce the latest version of SSIS Catalog Browser is available for (free!) download. Updates in v0.9.14.0: Bug fixes. No longer mixing package parameter references with project parameter references in the Values Everywhere feature. Check it out today! Want to Learn Azure Data Factory (from me)? I’m delivering a full day of …
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Why I Have Never Liked Personas
First, A Story Years ago I managed an ETL Team at Unisys. When I became manager, we had about 24 team members. The team grew to 40 members. I was initially hired to build an SSIS framework to replace functionality built-in to a competing product. The maintenance cost for the competing product was $1,000,000USD per …
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As 2022 Closes, I am Grateful…
I write this 26 Dec 2022, about half a week before the end of 2022. How was 2022 for me – personally and professionally? This year was pretty good. For that, I am grateful. God is good. Personal I am aware of – and pray regularly about – troubles in the world. Some are closer …
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Confidence and SSIS Catalog as Code
That’s what we sell at Data Integration Lifecycle Management Suite: confidence. Confidence There’s no substitute for that feeling of confidence when SSIS Catalog Compare is used to compare two SSIS Catalogs and the comparison yields no differences. I cannot improve on testimonies from our customers: The question of comparing a Production SSIS Catalog with a …
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SSIS Catalog Compare Code Promotion with DILM Deployment Utility
This post is a follow-up to my recent post titled Promoting SSIS Catalog Objects Between Lifecycle Management Tiers. DILM Deployment Utility is a great way to encapsulate SSIS Catalog folders as code in sccpac files. Drop the files in a git repo, add, commit, and push, and viola, scripts for your SSIS Catalog folder(s) and …
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Promoting SSIS Catalog Objects Between Lifecycle Management Tiers
Code promotion is essential to DevOps. One problem solved by SSIS Catalog Compare is code promotion via scripting between Development, Test, Pre-Production, and Production lifecycle management tiers*. In the video, I demonstrate: One gap (scripting all SSIS objects stored in the SSIS Catalog) in SSIS management tools shipped with SSMS. One way SSIS Catalog Compare …
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SSIS Catalog Compare August Sale
For the month of August 2022, SSIS Catalog Compare Enterprise Edition yearly subscription is on sale for 60% off the regular yearly subscription rate! SSIS Catalog Compare facilitates Data Integration Lifecycle Management (DILM) and DevOps with SSIS by: Comparing SSIS Catalog metadata between data integration lifecycle tiers (Development, Test, QA, Production, etc.) Promoting (deploying) SSIS …
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