Updated SSIS Extension v3.15 for Visual Studio 2019

On 16 Nov 2021, the Microsoft SSIS Team released an update to version 3.15 of the Integration Services extension for Visual Studio 2019: SQL Server Integration Services Projects extension for Visual Studio 2019. An operative bullet for this version: SQL Server Integration Services Projects extension doesn’t support Visual Studio 2022 yet. There remains an issue …
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New DataDriven Episode with Dan Burcaw

Links Sponsor: Audible.com – Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial! Notable Quotes BAILeY’s Introduction (00:00) “Foreshadowing” – BAILeY (00:36) Andy shares about proofing Building Custom Tasks for SQL Server Integration Services, 2nd EDition (01:30) Introducing Dan and Nami ML (05:00) Dan wrote an app – when he was …
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Regarding Amazon Reviews

In a scene in History of the World, Part 1, Mel Brooks portrays a caveman painting and describes the scene as the “first artist.” He follows this scene with a non-flattering comment about the first art critic. Since the movie, made in 1981, is not longer appropriate (truth be told, it probably was inappropriate in …
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Announcing GA of the Integration Services Projects Extension for Visual Studio 2019

The Microsoft SSIS Team announces the general availability (GA) of the SSIS Projects for VS2019 version 3.3! In this version, the biggest change is that we removed Power Query Source for SQL Server 2017 and Microsoft Oracle Connector for SQL Server 2019. Since this version, if you want to use these two components in this …
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In 2020, Two Full Training Days, Two Continents

It dawned on me that I am honored to deliver two full-day conference training presentations in early 2020 on two continents! At the Difinity 2020 conference in Auckland New Zealand, Sandy Winarko and I are co-presenting Intelligent Data Integration with SSIS and Azure Data Factory 20 Feb 2020. Sandy is Principal Program Manager – Azure …
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Free Stuff for People Who Give Back: Announcing 2020 Scholarship Application

Do you work for a charity or non-profit organization? Submit your application today. I haven’t advertised this in the past and… I’m not sure why: I donate licenses for SSIS Catalog Compare and (non-free) SSIS Framework Editions – and subscriptions to Biml Academy and SSIS Academy – and Enterprise Data & Analytics Training – to individuals who work for charities and non-profit organizations. I am honored to …
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2019 – A Blog in Review

I write this 12 Dec 2019. Thus far in 2019 – 348 days in, counting this post – I’ve posted 124 posts at andyleonard.blog(). Roughly, that’s one post every three (~2.8) days. According to the WP-Statistics plugin, this blog has had just under 60k visitors and you have visited over 155k pages year-to-date. From the …
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Public Preview – SSIS Azure DevOps Build and Deploy Tasks

Microsoft announces the public preview for SSIS Azure DevOps Tools, which includes the SSIS Build and SSIS Deploy Azure DevOps tasks! I was honored to present Azure DevOps and the SSIS Development Lifecycle at the PASS Summit 2019 where I demonstrated these new tasks in action. Check them out! :{>

Overcome Challenges of Lifting and Shifting SSIS to Azure

Enjoy this recording of a free webinar titled Overcome Challenges of Lifting and Shifting SSIS to Azure! In this webinar, I demonstrated challenges of scripting SSIS Catalog Environments, Environment Variables, References, Reference Mappings, and Literals for deployment to another SSIS Catalog. These challenges are particularly troublesome when practicing Lifecycle Management or DevOps with SQL Server …
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