I’ve made no secret of my personal disdain for Presentation Levels. My non-appreciation for presentation levels is largely driven by presentation evaluation complaints received over the years. These complaints mostly read the same (paraphrased): “The presentation was advertised as Level 200, but I felt it was more of a Level 100 (or 300, or whatever) …
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My New Title is Chief Data Engineer
My new job title at Enterprise Data & Analytics is Chief Data Engineer. “What’s a Data Engineer, Andy?” I’m glad you asked! Data Science is a broad term applied to analytics derived from the statistical analysis of data. “So, what do data scientists actually do?” That’s a fantastic question: Data scientists experiment. they use tools like …
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My Plans for PASS Summit 2017
I’m looking forward to attending the PASS Summit 2017 next week – especially since I missed last year. If you search, you can find lots of great advice to attendees of the Summit. I agree with almost all of the advice out there and, if you’re a first-time attendee, it would serve you well to …
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Moving Day
With a little help from a friend – Adam Machanic (@AdamMachanic) – I have moved my old SQLBlog.com posts here to andyleonard.blog. My old blog looks like the image above. The posts have been removed and links replace the content so older posts and links still work, but the placeholder content points folks here (I’m …
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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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Immersion Event on Learning SSIS – May 2018!
I am honored to partner with the awesome team at SQLSkills to deliver IESSIS1: Immersion Event on Learning SQL Server Integration Services in person in Chicago 7-11 May 2018! Click here to register! Here’s what I’ll be covering: Module 1: Introduction In the introduction we share information about the instructor, course flow, and content, and gather …
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SQL Server Management Studio v17.3
SQL Server Management Studio v17.3 has been released! You may want to save the URL because Microsoft seems to dropping the latest and greatest versions of SSMS there each and every time here lately. :{>
Data Integration Life Cycle Management with SSIS: A Short Introduction by Example is Available for Pre-Order!
I’m excited to announce that book #3 for 2017 is available for pre-order at Amazon! Data Integration Life Cycle Management with SSIS: A Short Introduction by Example is a(nother) short-ish book (~112 pages) that offers insight into managing SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in an enterprise. I wrote the book to demonstrate managing SSIS as it …
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One Way to Install SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition
My intention in sharing this post it to help you install an instance of SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition. I accept most of the defaults in this installation, changing a few things that I only change in non-Production environments (like Mixed Mode Authentication for security). Please follow the advice of Microsoft and SQL Server professionals …
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SSIS Change Detection Patterns: None
A Post About Nothing Actually not. But as a fan of Seinfeld, it’s cool to work in that quote. Seriously, though, No Change Detection is a valid change detection use case. In SSIS it looks like this: Whack ‘n’ Load I (lovingly) refer to this SSIS Design Pattern as the Whack ‘n’ Load Pattern. Is …
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