My latest book – Data Integration Life Cycle Management with SSIS – is now available! In this focused (185-page) book, I walk through ways to manage SSIS in the enterprise using what ships in the box. I point out what works well and what’s missing. I share workarounds for the stuff that’s missing, and then I …
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Presenting A Day of Intelligent Data Integration at SQL Saturday Richmond!
I am honored to present my day-long precon titled SSIS Design Patterns and Biml: A Day of Intelligent Data Integration at SQL Saturday 705 – Richmond 23 Mar 2018! 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 Biml and executed using …
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Data Integration Life Cycle Management with SSIS: A Short Introduction by Example is Available for Pre-Order!
I’m excited to announce that book #3 for 2017 is available for pre-order at Amazon! Data Integration Life Cycle Management with SSIS: A Short Introduction by Example is a(nother) short-ish book (~112 pages) that offers insight into managing SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in an enterprise. I wrote the book to demonstrate managing SSIS as it …
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Expert SSIS Training 4-5 Dec 2017!
Yep, we’re doing it again. In cooperation with Brent Ozar Unlimited, the next delivery of Expert SSIS Training is 4-5 Dec 2017. I had a great time delivering this course with Brent in September and I’m excited to have the opportunity to share this material with you again! If you register soon (written 27 Sep …
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Intelligent Data Integration, SSIS Design Patterns, and Biml
On occasion I have the privilege and honor of delivering a full-day precon titled Intelligent Data Integration: SSIS Design Patterns and Biml as part of SQL Saturday events. “Isn’t This The Same Presentation You Delivered Before, Andy?” Yes and no. It has the same title but… I’ve focused on Biml presentations for the past two years. Over the …
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The Recording for Designing an SSIS Framework is Now Available
Kent Bradshaw and I had a great crowd, lots of awesome questions, and delivered good demonstrations at the Designing an SSIS Framework webinar. You can view the webinar for free (although registration is required) here. In the webinar Kent and I discussed the following Data Integration Lifecycle Management Suite products: SSIS Framework Community Edition – free and open source Catalog Reports – …
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The Recording for Biml in the Enterprise Data Integration Lifecycle is Available!
The recording for the webinar Biml in the Enterprise Data Integration Lifecycle is now available (registration required). The password for the meeting is BimlRocks. You may be reading this post and thinking, “But Andy, I don’t recall seeing anything about this webinar until just now.” That’s entirely possible. I advertised this webinar in advance, but only to members of the DILM Mailing …
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Why Automate?
This post was originally published at SQLBlog. Because, as Jen Underwood (jenunderwood.com | LinkedIn) states in the Data Driven podcast Jen Underwood on Data Visualization and Automating Data Science: The future of data science is automation. If automation is the future, how do we decide what to automate? We look for the long pole. What’s the long pole in data science? …
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Data Wrangling Concepts: Latency and Staleness
This post was originally published at SQLBlog. Latency is the amount of time between data creation and load. Staleness is the amount of time since data in a target was refreshed. In many data integration use cases, a latency or staleness of one day, one week, or even one month is acceptable. Enterprise Data & Analytics helps enterprise data integration teams …
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