“My name is Andy and I am a huge fan of source control.” That said, I confess I have struggled with git for a couple years now. I recently had some “play time” – I love play time – and decided to play with git. In this post I will demonstrate how to create an …
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SSIS Design Pattern: Use Script Tasks for ETL Instrumentation
I consider scripting in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) my data integration “get out of jail free” card. Why? If I cannot find a way to accomplish some requirement using SSIS’s built-in objects – tasks, containers, Data Flow components, etc. – I can usually write .Net code to fulfill the requirement. As stated in the …
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Enterprise Data & Analytics and SentryOne
I am honored to announce Enterprise Data & Analytics is a SentryOne Consulting Partner! We began communicating regularly with SentryOne soon after they acquired the SSIS people and products from Pragmatic Works. Becoming a partner just made sense because we have been recommending Task Factory and LegiTest for years. We are honored and excited to …
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The Recording of Faster SSIS is Available
The recording for the free webinar titled Faster SSIS is available and may be viewed above. Thanks to everyone who attended! Regarding “Bad” BLOBTempStoragePath Settings Regarding the BLObs.dtsx demo SSIS package, Doug asked a really good question: “Does the package abort if the [BLOBTempStoragePath] folder path is invalid or does it create it for you?” …
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SSIS, Docker, and Windows Containers, Part 1 – Why?
In my first post in this series, SSIS, Docker, and Windows Containers, Part 0 – Getting Started, I covered: Installing docker Choosing a Container OS Pulling a test image Pulling a Windows Container with SQL Server installed interacting with with your instantiated container In this post I reveal my ultimate goal and then travel down …
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Free Webinar – Faster SSIS
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a powerful enterprise data integration tool that ships free with Microsoft SQL Server. Join me as I demonstrates practical SSIS performance design patterns. Register today to learn: Load BLObs faster An Incremental Load design pattern using HashBytes Using a Script Component Destination This webinar is free! Register today!
Free Webinar: Troubleshooting SSIS – 13 Mar at 12:00 PM ET
Join Microsoft Data Platform MVP, author, blogger, and Enterprise Data & Analytics Chief Data Engineer Andy Leonard for a free webinar titled Troubleshooting SSIS 13 Mar 2019 at 12:00 PM ET. Register today! Here’s a free preview!
Lift and Shift SSIS to Azure
Enterprise Data & Analytics‘ data engineers are experts at lifting and shifting SSIS to Azure Data Factory SSIS Integration Runtime. Our state-of-the-art DILM Suite tools in the capable hands of our experienced data engineers combine to drastically reduce the amount of time to manually migrate and apply SSIS Catalog configuration artifacts – Literals, Catalog Environments and Catalog Environment Variables, …
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Andy Answers: Format a Flat File Name
My Twitter DMs are open @AndyLeonard. Ask me a question about SSIS, ADF, or Biml. I may answer it with a blog post, a video, or both. Today’s Andy Answer is an answer to an SSIS question received via @AndyLeonard direct message: Using SSDT, I have 3 variables: one for the file path, one for …
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Mean Time to Identify Failure
While managing a team of 40 ETL developers, I wanted to track lots of metrics. Some of the things I wanted to track were technical, like SSIS package execution times. Some metrics were people-centric. Andy’s First Rule of Statistics states: You can use statistics for anything about people, except people. Andy – circa 2005 It was …
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