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SSIS Design Pattern - ETL Instrumentation, Part 1
Introduction SSIS is a fantastic ETL engine. When I build an ETL solution in SSIS, I like to collect runtime metrics. Why? I use the data initially to determine a baseline for performance and to...
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SSIS Design Pattern - ETL Instrumentation, Part 2
IntroductionThis post is part of a series of posts on ETL Instrumentation.In Part 1 we built a database to hold collected SSIS run time metrics and an SSIS package to deomnstrate how and why we would...
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SSIS Design Pattern - ETL Instrumentation, Part 3
Introduction This post is part of a series of posts on ETL Instrumentation.In Part 1 we built a database to hold collected SSIS run time metrics and an SSIS package to deomnstrate how and why we would...
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SSIS Design Pattern - ETL Instrumentation, Part 4
IntroductionThis post is part of a series of posts on ETL Instrumentation.In Part 1 we built a database to hold collected SSIS run time metrics and an SSIS package to deomnstrate how and why we would...
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SSIS Design Patterns, the Book
For the past two years, I have had the honor and privilege or authoring SSIS Design Patterns alongside Jessica Moss, Michelle Ufford, Tim Mitchell, and Matt Masson. Publication of the book – like many...
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Little Data Remains Important in Healthcare IT
In his article Healthcare's Big Problem With Little Data , author Dan Munro raises salient points about the state of health-related data. Electronic Health Records (EHR) were promoted as the...
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SSIS Design Patterns Training in London 8-11 Sep!
A few seats remain for my course SQL Server Integration Services 2012 Design Patterns to be delivered in London 8-11 Sep 2014. Register today to learn more about: New features in SSIS 2012 and 2014...
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Presenting SSIS 2014 Data Flow Tuning Tips and Tricks at Triad PASS BI 25 Aug...
I am honored to present SSIS 2014 Data Flow Tuning Tips and Tricks to the Triad PASS BI chapter in Winston-Salem 25 Aug 2015. Do you want SSIS to go fast? This session is for you! Attend and learn...
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Precon - SSIS Design Patterns and BIML: A Day of Intelligent Data...
I’m excited to announce I will be delivering a precon 8 Jan 2016 in Alpharetta Georgia for SQL Saturday 477 – Atlanta BI Edition titled SSIS Design Patterns and BIML: A Day of Intelligent Data...
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Managing SSIS Catalog Project Parameter Values
One of the coolest features of the SSIS Catalog is Catalog Environments. Catalog Environments offer a compelling and rich solution for Catalog Project Parameter value externalization and configuration...
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ETL Instrumentation in 2016
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… I wrote about ETL Instrumentation . Ok, it wasn’t that long ago, and it wasn’t far away. But things have changed some since I wrote that series, and I would...
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Administering SSIS: Parsing SSIS Catalog Messages for Lookups
"The SSIS Catalog is a database and an application." - Andy Leonard, circa 2015 If there’s one thing I want you to get from this post, it’s this: The SSIS Catalog is a database and an application....
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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...
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Passively Mine SSIS Data Flow Rows Loaded From the SSIS Catalog
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...
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