I spent a lot of time this year writing and managing a book project. I will blog about that later, I promise. While I enjoy writing it really cuts into my play time. What do I do when I play? I write software. This weekend I cracked open the code for SSIS Catalog Compare and …
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Catalog Reports Update
I recently updated the Data Integration Lifecycle Management Suite (DILM Suite) Catalog Reports solution! Here’s a summary of the changes: I re-arranged fields on the Executions Report: I moved the links to the Overview, Messages, and Performance reports to the left in each (execution) row to support easier navigation. I added Previous and Next Execution …
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A Basic SSIS Catalog Dashboard in Power BI
Announcing the latest addition to the DILM Suite: Basic SSIS Catalog Dashboard in Power BI! This free download includes a T-SQL script to create a view in the SSIS Catalog database (SSISDB) and a Power BI template for viewing SSIS Catalog executions by Year, Month, Folder, Project, Package, and/or Execution Status. The Basic SSIS Catalog Dashboard …
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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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What is the DILM Suite? 2. SSIS Catalog Compare
SSIS Catalog Compare is really two products: SSIS Catalog Compare (GUI – graphical user interface) and CatCompare (CLI – command-line interface). This post will focus on GUI functionality as it’s easier to demonstrate. SSIS Catalog Compare provides the following functionality to enterprise Data Integration Lifecycle Management (DILM): Compares the contents of two SSIS Catalog instances. …
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What is the DILM Suite? 1. SSIS Framework Community Edition
Andy Leonard shares solutions for managing enterprise SSIS – the Data Integration Lifecycle Management (DILM) Suite.
Deploying SSIS Projects to a Restored SSIS Catalog (SSISDB)
This post was originally shared on SQLBlog. You’re coding away with SSIS, happy as a clam, and it’s now time to deploy your hard work to an instance of the SSIS Catalog. If you’re in Visual Studio, you right-click the project name in Solution Explorer and click Deploy. If you’ve been given an ISPAC file, …
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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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