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 …
Continue reading Data Integration Life Cycle Management with SSIS: A Short Introduction by Example is Available for Pre-Order!
Tag:DILM
Coming Soon: SSIS Catalog Compare Updates
I spent a lot of time this year writing and managing a book project. I will blog about that later, I promise. While I enjoy writing it really cuts into my play time. What do I do when I play? I write software. This weekend I cracked open the code for SSIS Catalog Compare and …
Continue reading Coming Soon: SSIS Catalog Compare Updates
Catalog Reports Update
I recently updated the Data Integration Lifecycle Management Suite (DILM Suite) Catalog Reports solution! Here’s a summary of the changes: I re-arranged fields on the Executions Report: I moved the links to the Overview, Messages, and Performance reports to the left in each (execution) row to support easier navigation. I added Previous and Next Execution …
Continue reading Catalog Reports Update
Intelligent Data Integration, SSIS Design Patterns, and Biml
On occasion I have the privilege and honor of delivering a full-day precon titled Intelligent Data Integration: SSIS Design Patterns and Biml as part of SQL Saturday events. “Isn’t This The Same Presentation You Delivered Before, Andy?” Yes and no. It has the same title but… I’ve focused on Biml presentations for the past two years. Over the …
Continue reading Intelligent Data Integration, SSIS Design Patterns, and Biml
The Recording for Designing an SSIS Framework is Now Available
Kent Bradshaw and I had a great crowd, lots of awesome questions, and delivered good demonstrations at the Designing an SSIS Framework webinar. You can view the webinar for free (although registration is required) here. In the webinar Kent and I discussed the following Data Integration Lifecycle Management Suite products: SSIS Framework Community Edition – free and open source Catalog Reports – …
Continue reading The Recording for Designing an SSIS Framework is Now Available
The Recording for Biml in the Enterprise Data Integration Lifecycle is Available!
The recording for the webinar Biml in the Enterprise Data Integration Lifecycle is now available (registration required). The password for the meeting is BimlRocks. You may be reading this post and thinking, “But Andy, I don’t recall seeing anything about this webinar until just now.” That’s entirely possible. I advertised this webinar in advance, but only to members of the DILM Mailing …
Continue reading The Recording for Biml in the Enterprise Data Integration Lifecycle is Available!
What is the DILM Suite? 2. SSIS Catalog Compare
SSIS Catalog Compare is really two products: SSIS Catalog Compare (GUI – graphical user interface) and CatCompare (CLI – command-line interface). This post will focus on GUI functionality as it’s easier to demonstrate. SSIS Catalog Compare provides the following functionality to enterprise Data Integration Lifecycle Management (DILM): Compares the contents of two SSIS Catalog instances. …
Continue reading What is the DILM Suite? 2. SSIS Catalog Compare
What is the DILM Suite? 1. SSIS Framework Community Edition
Andy Leonard shares solutions for managing enterprise SSIS – the Data Integration Lifecycle Management (DILM) Suite.
Why Automate?
This post was originally published at SQLBlog. Because, as Jen Underwood (jenunderwood.com | LinkedIn) states in the Data Driven podcast Jen Underwood on Data Visualization and Automating Data Science: The future of data science is automation. If automation is the future, how do we decide what to automate? We look for the long pole. What’s the long pole in data science? …
Continue reading Why Automate?
Schedule an SSIS Application with SSIS Framework Community Edition
Note: This post was originally posted at SQLBlog. The coolest thing about SSIS Framework Community Edition is it’s free. You can click that link to head over to the DILM Suite site where you can learn more and find a link to the source code, documentation, and sample SSIS projects on GitHub. I’m overwhelmed by the number of folks using …
Continue reading Schedule an SSIS Application with SSIS Framework Community Edition