SSIS and Visual Studio Configurations

I got a great question from a student in the December delivery of Expert SSIS. A student asked, “Why wouldn’t you use Environments in Visual Studio (Dev, Test, and Prod), and deploy accordingly the mapped project parameters and package parameters?” I’ve looked into using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT, or Visual Studio) configurations in the …
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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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Parsing SSIS Catalog Messages for Lookup Performance, v2

A couple years ago I wrote Administering SSIS: Parsing SSIS Catalog Messages for Lookups. I’ve updated the script to return all Lookup Transformation performance messages captured by the SSIS Catalog with Basic logging enabled (the SSIS Catalog’s default Logging Level). Some smart data integration people recommend setting the SSIS Catalog Logging Level to Verbose and …
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