I streamed about Biml earlier. And BimlExpress (which is free). And my BimlExpress Metadata Framework (which is also free). Enjoy! :{>
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Honored to Present Intelligent Data Integration at SQL Saturday – Virginia Beach!
SQL Saturday 839 – Virginia Beach has three precons scheduled for 07 June. That’s three opportunities for you to learn from, “A couple really smart people – plus me!” Who are these smart people? Andrew Kelly and John Morehouse will be speaking on Core Level Performance Monitoring and Managing and Architecting Azure Data Platform, respectively. …
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Honored to Present Intelligent Data Integration at SQL Saturday – Dallas!
SQL Saturday 841 – Dallas has four precons scheduled for 31 May. Four. If you have ever organized a SQL Saturday or similarly-sized event, you know this takes a lot of hard work. Hat’s off to the organizers! I describe the precon presenters as, “A bunch of really smart people – plus me!” Chris Hyde, …
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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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Use Biml to Build a Local Copy of an Azure SQL DB – a Free Webinar
Join me 30 Aug 2018 at noon EDT for another free webinar titled Use Biml to Build a Local Copy of an Azure SQL DB. This webinar is inspired by a social media post by a friend. His company is using Azure SQL DB in Production. They want to make a copy of the Production …
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DevOps and SSIS and Azure Data Factory
I wrote a book about practicing Data Integration Lifecycle Management with SSIS. In the book I explore tools I built to support DevOps with SSIS. Collectively, I call them the Data Integration Lifecycle Management Suite (DILM Suite). Many utilities at DILM Suite are free and some are open-source: SSIS Framework Community Edition – free, open-source, and …
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Honored to Deliver Intelligent Data Integration – a PASS Summit 2018 Precon
I’m honored to deliver my full-day precon, Intelligent Data Integration with SSIS, at the PASS Summit 2018! You can see a list of other precons at the PASS Summit 2018 Pre-Conference Sessions page. I refer to this group as “a bunch of really smart people… plus me!” Abstract What is Intelligent Data Integration? SSIS (SQL Server …
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Presenting Use Biml to Automate SSIS Design Patterns to MSDEVMTL!
I’m honored and excited to deliver Use Biml to Automate SSIS Design Patterns to the MSDevMTL User Group in Montréal, QC 27 Mar 2018! Session: 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 …
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The Next Book Project: Frameworks
Kent Bradshaw, Shannon Lowder, and I explore stored procedure-based data integration patterns, an SSIS execution framework, and two Biml frameworks in a book we are writing, tentatively titled Frameworks.
The Next Expert SSIS Delivery is 2.5 Days – 5-7 Mar 2018!
Yep, we’re doing it again! In cooperation with Brent Ozar Unlimited, the next delivery of Expert SSIS Training is 5-7 Mar 2018. I had a great time delivering this course with Brent in September and December 2017 and I’m excited to have the opportunity to share this material with you again! We’ve extended the course …
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