Laid Off? Or the Beginning of Your Next Opportunity?

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Promoting SSIS Catalog Objects Between Lifecycle Management Tiers

Code promotion is essential to DevOps. One problem solved by SSIS Catalog Compare is code promotion via scripting between Development, Test, Pre-Production, and Production lifecycle management tiers*. In the video, I demonstrate: One gap (scripting all SSIS objects stored in the SSIS Catalog) in SSIS management tools shipped with SSMS. One way SSIS Catalog Compare …
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SSIS Catalog Compare August Sale

For the month of August 2022, SSIS Catalog Compare Enterprise Edition yearly subscription is on sale for 60% off the regular yearly subscription rate! SSIS Catalog Compare facilitates Data Integration Lifecycle Management (DILM) and DevOps with SSIS by: Comparing SSIS Catalog metadata between data integration lifecycle tiers (Development, Test, QA, Production, etc.) Promoting (deploying) SSIS …
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Another Way to Use SSIS Catalog Compare to Migrate SSIS Catalog Folders

Update: SSIS Catalog Compare 2022 is generally available! SSIS Catalog Compare 2022 (Beta) is available at a dramatically-reduced yearly subscription rate at the time of this writing. The yearly subscription rate will increase when SSIS Catalog Compare becomes generally available (GA). Those willing to help out by testing the beta version (in Development and Test environments …
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Using SSIS Catalog Compare to Migrate SSIS Catalog Folders

SSIS Catalog Compare 2022 (Beta) is available at a dramatically-reduced yearly subscription rate at the time of this writing. The yearly subscription rate will increase when SSIS Catalog Compare becomes generally available (GA). Those willing to help out by testing the beta version (in Development and Test environments only, please!) will enjoy the beta yearly …
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On Broken References in the SSIS Catalog

I recently made this video to explain what I call “broken references” in the SSIS Catalog. In the video, I create and test a broken reference, and then demonstrate how SSIS Catalog Browser (and SSIS Catalog Compare) visualize broken references. Enjoy! What is a Broken Reference? It may help to define reference first. An SSIS …
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SSIS in SQL Server 2022 CTP 2.0

SQL Server 2022 Community Technology Preview 2.0 is available, and it includes the SSIS Catalog! Create an SSIS Catalog At the time of this writing, the SSIS 2022 Catalog is similar (identical, perhaps) to the SSIS 2019 Catalog. Connect to a SQL Server 2022 instance using SSMS and right-click the Integration Services Catalogs node in …
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Announcing SSIS Framework Community Edition 2022

I am honored to announce the latest addition to DILM Suite, another free and open-source project named SSIS Framework Community Edition 2022! SSIS Framework CE 2022 is an updated version of SSIS Framework Community Edition – which is also free and open-source – but features a separate database, named SSISFrameworkDB,  for storing SSIS Application and Package …
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Join Me for LIVE Online SSIS and ADF Training 29 Nov – 1 Dec

It’s been a while since I delivered training live and online. Let’s fix that! Join me for Master the Fundamentals of ADF and Expert SSIS 29 Nov – 1 Dec.