PASS Summit 2011 Evaluation Responses

I was honored to participate in delivering several presentations at the PASS Summit 2011. I received lots of feedback. I am sharing portions of the feedback from session evaluations, as in years past. The scale is 1 to 5: 1 – Very Poor, 2 – Poor, 3 – Average, 4 – Good, 5 – Excellent. …
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MicroTraining Next Tuesday: SSIS Frameworks

I am not sure why, but Google+ Hangouts no longer work for microtraining. <sadface /> I found Meeting Burner a few weeks back and have switched to it. One cool feature? You can register for the meetings and add them to your calendar. Another cool feature? There are more than 10 seats. Next Tuesday, 20 Dec, I …
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PASS Elections 2011 Update: Board Voting is Now Open!

Introduction I am following the PASS Board Elections 2011 process, blogging about the people and events. You can find a list of all my posts on the topic here. Board Elections According to the schedule, Board elections opened yesterday and remain open until 20 Dec 2011. Check out the PASS Elections 2011 portal for more …
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SSIS MicroTraining – The Incremental Load SSIS Design Pattern

Join me today at 10:00 AM EST* on Google+ *UPDATED TIME! The Incremental Load SSIS design pattern is the classic approach to ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) that loads only new or changed data. this session serves as an abbreviated introduction to the mechanics of ETL using SSIS. This is part of my Four Weeks of SSIS …
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Meme Monday–Dear Microsoft, For Christmas This Year…

This post is a response to Tom LaRock’s (Blog | @SQLRockstar | SQLPeople) awesome idea: Meme Monday. … I would like a revamp of Microsoft Connect. Feedback is part of any good Continuous Improvement endeavor. I like the idea of Connect – a lot. It’s a decently-designed portal, in my humble opinion. It allows me …
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Dashboards

Introduction This post is the forty-ninth part of a ramble-rant about the software business. The current posts in this series can be found on the series landing page. This post is about dashboards. Dashboards are where data meets decision-makers. The field of data visualization is about this intersection of information and actors. Here, the numbers are translated …
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SSIS MicroTraining – “I See a Control Flow. Now What?” (Creating Your First SSIS Package)

Join me today at 11:00 AM EDT on Google+ In this session, I will walk through the basics of building your very first SSIS package. If you’ve never built an SSIS package but want to know how, this presentation is for you. This is part of my Four Weeks of SSIS MicroTraining. I hope to …
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