“There I was…” happy as a clam, rolling right along in my free webinar titled “Introduction to Lifting and Shifting SSIS to the Cloud” (you can view the recording if you missed it [registration required]). I opened Catalog Browser to show off this free utility from DILM Suite and “Guess what my code did?” “Exactly what you …
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The Recording for Introduction to Lifting and Shifting SSIS to the Cloud is Now Available
The recording of my free webinar – Introduction to Lifting and Shifting SSIS to the Cloud – is now available (registration required). Abstract How does an enterprise lift and shift SSIS projects from SSIS Catalogs on-premises to the Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime? What are the best practices? Do SSIS lifecycle management tools exist to …
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ADF Execute SSIS Package Activity
The good people who work on Azure Data Factory recently added an Execute SSIS Package activity. It’s pretty cool. Let’s tinker with it some, shall we? First, you will need to create an Azure Data Factory SSIS Integration Runtime. If you don’t know how, that’s ok – I’ve written a post titled Lift and Shift SSIS …
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Lift and Shift SSIS Part 1: Deploy Integration Runtime SSIS
What if I told you, “You can quickly and easily deploy Integration Runtime SSIS projects to Azure Data Factory?” You can! As shown in the image, you can simply right-click the SSIS project name in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Solution Explorer and click Deploy to deploy the project to the Azure Data Factory (ADF) …
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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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SSIS Design Pattern: Controller Pattern
The SSIS Design Pattern known as the Controller Pattern provides a solution for executing SSIS packages in parallel – even from a serial SSIS execution framework such as SSIS Framework Community Edition (part of DILM Suite).
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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“You Do Not Know What You Are Doing”
Peeves make lousy pets. Knowing this doesn’t help; I still keep a few pet peeves. One of my pet peeves is this statement, “You don’t know what you are doing.” Why is this a pet peeve? It denies the obvious fact that everyone one of us, everywhere, is still learning. “My Name is Andy and …
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Catalog Browser, Version 0.6.2.0
If you’ve read this blog for a short time, you already know I have a passion for DevOps. You probably guessed I also have a passion for data engineering (My job title at Enterprise Data & Analytics is Chief Data Engineer). I believe successful software development is a combination of a software development platform, a …
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