Loving Windows 7
I installed the public Windows 7 beta on one of my laptops early this week. This is a laptop that I use all the time when I’m at home (I love the keyboard, so I sit at this one and Remote Desktop into...
View ArticleI’m Certifiable – Are You?
Odd are, if you read this blog you are certifiable. One way or the other. But of course, I’m talking about Microsoft technical certifications in the developer and IT Professional world. (What were you...
View ArticleIndexes and SSIS Data Flow Performance
Wow – it’s been a while, hasn’t it?As you may know, I took a job with Microsoft back in October. It’s been a fun (and insanely busy) five months; the work is challenging and diverse, the team I work...
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Get on the Bus!
if (you.Location.Match(“Atlanta”, “Charlotte”, “Philadelphia”, “Columbus”, “Indianapolis”, “St. Louis”, “Kansas City”, “Denver”, “Albuquerque”, “Phoenix”, “Las Vegas”, “Los Angeles”) ==...
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Going to Tech·Ed 2009 North America!
I’ve been to Tech·Ed North America every year for the last four years. It’s Microsoft’s biggest technical conference and is an amazing opportunity to learn and to network – and it’s always a ton of fun...
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SSIS Development and Source Code Control
In my personal best practices for SSIS development, I claim that we need to treat SSIS packages like code. When I give presentations on this topic, I have a slide that elaborates and talks about how we...
View ArticleHey, That Was Fun!
As you probably know, I’m a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). As you may not know, MCTs are required to renew their certification each year, and the 2009 renewal period is currently underway. I got my...
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SSIS and the Package ProtectionLevel Property
This is another one of those “I could have sworn I blogged on this years ago” posts.[1] I was looking for something I’d already written that discussed the ProtectionLevel property of the SSIS Package,...
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Visual Studio Window Layout for SSIS Development
My friend and colleague Lynn Langit has a habit of blogging where she posts an image and a brief question and that’s it. I’m very jealous, because I can’t seem to write a blog post that’s shorter than...
View ArticleMore on Package Configurations
Douglas Laudenschlager from the SSIS documentation team has posted an excellent article to his unofficial SSIS blog on how package configurations are applied in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008...
View ArticleSpatial Demo Goodness
If you’re someone who presents on SQL Server topics, you have probably run into something of a wall when it comes to getting interesting spatial data sets to demonstrate. The spatial data included with...
View ArticleCoolest. Tool. Ever.
I’m struggling with how to best start this post. Here are a few possibilities:I like to think that I’m a hard person to impress. But… I swear at my computer many times a day, but usually in anger and...
View ArticleSSIS Package Templates: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
This is one of those “I could have sworn I blogged on this topic years ago” posts. I speak to this topic whenever I’m presenting on SSIS development best practices, and with my half-day mini-seminar in...
View ArticleSQL Server MVP Deep Dives
I’m not a SQL Server Most Valuable Professional anymore[1], but I was when this amazing project got underway, and I am proud to contribute as an author on SQL Server Integration Services. SQL Server...
View ArticleTransformations are NOT Tasks
This is another one of those “I thought I blogged this years ago” posts. I was having a conversation with a fellow MCT a few days ago, and he described SSIS data flow transformations as “tasks on the...
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Back in the SSISaddle
Testing…Testing…Is this thing on?Although I still get the occasional comment on older blog posts, I assume that pretty much nobody subscribes to my blog anymore for SSIS information. When I joined...
View ArticleYour Window Improvements May Vary
I love my new job. This morning I’m sitting in a training session organized by the SQL Server team to bring Microsoft team members up to speed on new Business Intelligence capabilities in SQL Server...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 RC 0 Available for Download
If you’re working with the pre-release versions of SQL Server 2012, or if you’re thinking about preparing for its release, today is a big day. The first release candidate has been published on the...
View ArticleSQL Server Special Ops Tour
If you’ve been following recent SQL Server news, you know that the next version of SQL Server has lost its “Denali” code name[1] and has been officially named SQL Server 2012.[0] This is actually sort...
View ArticleSSIS in RC0
If you’ve been following the pre-release versions SQL Server 2012 (previously code-named “Denali”) you’ve probably been using the Community Technology Preview (CTP3) that Microsoft released back in...
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