Software development is hard. It takes time, yes. But more than that, software development takes patience and thought and blood and sweat and love and tears. My friends at Varigence recently released an update to their Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) products. If you’re into business intelligence or data science, integration, or engineering, you should …
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Category:SSIS Catalog
SSIS Catalog Browser v0.6.4.0 Released
“There I was…” happy as a clam, rolling right along in my free webinar titled “Introduction to Lifting and Shifting SSIS to the Cloud” (you can view the recording if you missed it [registration required]). I opened Catalog Browser to show off this free utility from DILM Suite and “Guess what my code did?” “Exactly what you …
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Free Webinar – Introduction to Lifting and Shifting SSIS to ADF
I hope you will join me 21 Jun at noon EDT for a free webinar titled Introduction to Lifting and Shifting SSIS to the Cloud! Abstract In this webinar I demonstrate and discuss migrating SSIS projects from on-premises to the Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime. In addition I cover some best practices and demonstrate some …
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Lift and Shift SSIS Part 1: Deploy Integration Runtime SSIS
What if I told you, “You can quickly and easily deploy Integration Runtime SSIS projects to Azure Data Factory?” You can! As shown in the image, you can simply right-click the SSIS project name in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Solution Explorer and click Deploy to deploy the project to the Azure Data Factory (ADF) …
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Lift and Shift SSIS Part 0: Creating the ADF Integration Runtime
Let’s face it: All the cool kids are playing in the cloud. And why wouldn’t they be? Microsoft Azure gets new features every week… sometimes every day! One shiny feature is Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime (ADFIR) which is new in Azure Data Factory version 2. In this post I will show you one way to …
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How I Build an SSIS Test Virtual Machine
I use VirtualBox for my hypervisor engine. I started using it years ago when it was the first free hypervisor I found that supported 64-bit guests. In this post I share some thoughts about testing SSIS using a test virtual machine (VM). There are other awesome hypervisor platforms out there. In setting up a virtual …
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SSIS Design Pattern: Controller Pattern
The SSIS Design Pattern known as the Controller Pattern provides a solution for executing SSIS packages in parallel – even from a serial SSIS execution framework such as SSIS Framework Community Edition (part of DILM Suite).
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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My Books
I’ve authored and co-authored a bunch of books! Truth be told, I enjoy writing. I think my love of writing stems from a love of learning. I’m just trying to share the joy! It’s a huge honor to write. I’m humbled and thrilled (all at the same time – a feeling I describe as “all …
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