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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Video-Follow-up on SSIS Framework Restartability

A couple days ago I delivered a short demonstration about SSIS Framework application restartability. I saw one thing I did not like – a bug – and I mentioned another bug I witnessed. Yesterday, Kent Bradshaw and I had another opportunity to work on the SSIS Framework code, so we fixed the glitches. Enjoy this …
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Install and Configure SSIS Framework File Community Edition

I recently released SSIS Framework File Community Edition. In this video, I walk through obtaining the code and deploying the components of this free and open-source solution. You can obtain the code at github.com/aleonard763/SSIS-Framework-File-Community-Edition. Note: I tried some new settings in OBS Studio. Let me know what you think! Enjoy! :{>

SSIS Framework Reports Updates

I streamed for a little while today while the junior engineers were home playing games so my bandwidth suffered a little. I recorded it so I could share it here with you. You are welcome. I am beginning a refactor of the SSIS Framework Reports solution, part of DILM Suite‘s (Data Integration Lifecycle Management) commercial …
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AndyStream for 7 Nov 2021

Frank and I are on Day 5 of 1,000 days, a new thing we started 02 Nov 2021 to remind us time is not fungible and we should build – and stick to – systems of execution. This morning I popped on for a few minutes to (again) share information about Enterprise Data & Analytics‘ …
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AndyStream for 6 Nov 2021

Frank and I are on Day 4 of 1,000 days, a new thing we started 02 Nov 2021 to remind us time is not fungible and we should build – and stick to – systems of execution. This morning I popped on for a few minutes to shared information about Enterprise Data & Analytics‘ commercial …
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Announcing SSIS Framework Manager, v1

I am excited to announce the release of SSIS Framework Manager! Alongside SSIS Framework Community Edition – our free and open source execution framework, SSIS Framework Editions – a comparison of Community, Standard, Professional, and Enterprise editions, and SSIS Framework Browser – our free utility that grants read-only access to our SSIS Frameworks; SSIS Framework Manager …
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SSIS Framework Manager Property Overrides Video

I’m adding a GUI to DILM Suite called SSIS Framework Manager. If you read that name and guessed the GUI manages the SSIS Framework metadata, you are correct! I’ve been streaming as I’ve coded along on the project. I reached a pretty good functionality place earlier this week. Since then, I’ve been testing. I thought …
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