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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Why I Built SSIS Framework Community Edition, by Andy Leonard

A few weeks ago I published a blog post titled Why I Built DILM Suite, by Andy Leonard – an excerpt from the book Data Integration Life Cycle Management with SSIS. Last week I published Why I Built SSIS Catalog Compare, by Andy Leonard, another excerpt from the book. This post is another excerpt of the same book. Enjoy! A …
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Parallel Execution in SSIS Framework Community Edition

A number of folks are using the SSIS Framework Community Edition. I know because I continue to get interesting questions about it! Before I write more, I’d like to invite users to the DILM Suite Slack channel for Community Edition. If you cannot join, please let me know ([email protected]) and I will invite you! For …
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Presenting DevOps for SSIS 08 Feb 2018

I am honored to present DevOps for SSIS (or Data Integration Lifecycle Management) for the PASS DevOps Virtual Chapter 08 Feb 2018. Abstract: DevOps for SSIS (or Data Integration Lifecycle Management) How does SSIS participate in enterprise DevOps? Sharing topics from his latest book (Data Integration Life Cycle Management with SSIS), author and presenter Andy …
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Apache Storm Stream Processing in Azure HDInsight

I’m learning more about Apache Storm which is used for stream processing for near-real-time analytics in Azure HDInsight. I grabbed the image above from an AWS presentation on slideshare (link). I got all giggly inside as I learned about Storm architecture. Why? Because I built this much of this same functionality as part the DILM …
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On Data Frameworks…

You may not realize this, but Apache Spark is a framework. Spark is cluster-computing engine that manages parallel executions extremely well. Spark enables other technologies including Java, Scala, Python, R, and graph processing. Spark stitches together previously-disparate functionality into a cohesive, syntactically-similar set of commands. Spark’s architecture is library-driven and includes the following libraries: Spark SQL …
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