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I’m consulting and coaching a client in Washington state this week and they told me the same thing I hear regularly from other clients, “We didn’t know we could get you, personally, to deliver consulting!” Yep, you can. I personally deliver consulting and training, and you can reach me at Enterprise Data & Analytics’ contact …
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Frank came up with a great name for mini-shows at Data Driven: Data Points. These are shows we usually stream live to the Data Driven Facebook page and then convert to audio for posting on YouTube and the Data Driven website. As I type this, Frank and I just recorded a special “Thank You!” Data …
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This week on Data Driven, Frank and I are honored to interview Donald Farmer, founder of TreeHive Strategy! In this episode, we talk with Donald Farmer about data, profiting off ambiguity, fish farming, and Die Hard. Oh yeah, and tree houses. Notable Quotes Frank talks Star Wars. (1:40) Donald is more interested in the six-pointers. …
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Wow! We had a fantastic launch week for the Data Driven podcast! Thank you to everyone who’s listened (and everyone who will listen). I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our amazing guests: Jen Underwood, Nick Harris, and Lynn Langit. If you’re thinking of launching a podcast, I highly recommend these three guests to …
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Frank La Vigne and I are launching Data Driven this week. We are honored Lynn Langit (website | LinkedIn Learning) agreed to be our third guest! Lynn was an awesome guest! We talked about how data science is being used for bioinformatics and genomics research, potential implications of having your DNA sequenced, and hacking. Check …
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Frank La Vigne and I are launching Data Driven this week. We are honored Nick Harris, Corporate Strategist for McKesson Medial agreed to be our second guest! Nick, Frank, and I have been friends for a dozen years and it shows as the interview progresses – especially when we start talking Demolition Man! Check out …
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Frank La Vigne and I are launching Data Driven this week. We are honored Jen Underwood (blog | Impact Analytix) agreed to be our very first guest!  Jen was an awesome guest! We talked about unicorns, the relationship between data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, blogging, and unicorns. Check out the show! :{> Learn …
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I am honored to announce Data Driven – a new Data Science podcast hosted by Frank La Vigne (blog | @Tableteer) and me! Visit our site and: Check out new episodes. Learn more from the DataDriven blog. Become a Data Driver! Learn more about the show! To start off the podcast, Frank and I recorded …
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My next book titled Building Custom Tasks for SQL Server Integration Services is available for pre-order! The current release date is scheduled for late July 2017. The Cost of Custom SSIS Tasks There is overhead associated with using custom tasks in SSIS. When I started writing, I believed there were three costs associated with custom …
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As I wrote in Parsing SSIS Catalog Messages for Lookup Performance, v2: I prefer to passively gather performance metrics – even if it’s a little convoluted and more work (for me). I don’t often need these metrics immediately available, so I execute queries similar to the query below and store the performance metrics in a …
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