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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Delivering Intelligent Data Integration through SSIS in Dallas 31 May 2019!
I am honored to announce I will be delivering Intelligent Data Integration through SSIS – a day-long SQL Saturday 841 – Dallas pre-conference session 31 May 2019! Description: What is Intelligent Data Integration? SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) packages developed using tried and true design patterns, built to participate in a DevOps enterprise practicing DILM (Data …
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Enterprise Data & Analytics Welcomes Shannon Lowder!
I am honored and thrilled to welcome Shannon Lowder (@shannonlowder | blog | LinkedIn) to the Enterprise Data & Analytics team! Shannon is a data engineer, data scientist, BimlHero (though not listed on the page at the time of this writing), and shepherd of the Biml Interrogator open source project. If you use Biml to generate SSIS …
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Join me For Expert SSIS Training!
I’m honored to announce Expert SSIS – a course from Enterprise Data & Analytics! The next delivery is 01-02 Apr 2019, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET. Data integration is the foundation of data science, business intelligence, and enterprise data warehousing. This instructor-led training class is specifically designed for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) professionals …
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The 2:00 AM Test
I’m working with a collection of clients these days providing data integration, cloud, and DevOps advice. I love architecture work! My clients love the results. Everyone wins. Kent Bradshaw and I are tag-teaming with a couple clients who are converting data integration from other platforms to SSIS. In a recent meeting Kent mentioned “the 2:00 …
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Want to Learn More About Azure Data Factory?
From me? I am honored to announce Fundamentals of Azure Data Factory – a course from Enterprise Data & Analytics! The next delivery is 04 Mar 2019, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET. Azure Data Factory, or ADF, is an Azure PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) that provides hybrid data integration at global scale. Use ADF to build …
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How May I Serve You?
2018 is drawing to a close. Some readers recently shared requests for more blog posts on certain topics. I thought I’d put the question to my audience (both of you, hi Mom!) to gather your thoughts. Feel free to leave a comment or reach out via email. Here are some topics I plan to blog …
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SSIS, Docker, and Windows Containers, Part 0 – Getting Started
To begin tinkering with SSIS in containers, you first need to install Docker. There are some prerequisites. I will not exhaust the prerequisites here. I strongly suggest you familiarize yourself with the requirements for Docker prior to attempting to install the software. Since I use a PC (a Lenovo P51S) running Windows 10 Pro, I chose …
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