Andy Leonard is CSO of Linchpin People and SQLPeople, an SSIS Trainer, Consultant, and developer; a Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) developer; SQL Server database and data warehouse developer, community mentor, engineer, and farmer. He is a co-author of SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns. His background includes web application architecture and development, VB, and ASP. Andy loves the SQL Server Community!
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February 2008 - Posts

• Microsoft and Open Source: This Changes Things

  There was a pretty big announcement from Microsoft yesterday: Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability . To quote Steve Ballmer: Number one, we're committing to ensure open connections for our high Read More... Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 12:55 PM by andyleonard | 2 Comments Filed under: Database Developer, utilities, Microsoft

• CTP6 Samples

  Samples updated for SQL Server 2008 CTP6 are now available at CodePlex . Notes about the updated samples can be found here . Thanks to Dan Jones for the information! :{> Andy Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:52 PM by andyleonard | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer Community, SQL Server 2008

• SQL Server 2008 CTP6 Arrives!

  I see CTP6 has arrived at Microsoft Connect ! :{> Andy Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:00 PM by andyleonard | 6 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2008

• DreamSpark: Free Software for Students

  This is cool! Microsoft is giving away software - including SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, Windows 2003 Standard Edition, and Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Professional Editions - to college students. It's called DreamSpark and it puts professional Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:02 PM by andyleonard | 2 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio, Microsoft

• Power Tools for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

  Gert and team announce the availability of Power Tools for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition ! Cool new stuff includes a couple new test conditions, file- and XML-based data generators, and (my favorite) SQL Static Code Analysis integrated Read More... Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 2:55 AM by andyleonard | 0 Comments Filed under: Database Developer, Team Edition for Database Professionals, Visual Studio 2008, Database Edition, Team System, Microsoft

• Introducing Change Data Capture, SSIS, and SQL Server 2008 CTP5 (Nov 2007)

  Introduction On Thursday, 24 Jan 2008, I presented New Features In SSIS 2008 to the Richmond SQL Server Users Group . Most of the presentation was dedicated to demonstrating Change Data Capture (CDC) interacting with SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. Read More... Posted Saturday, February 09, 2008 6:57 AM by andyleonard | 9 Comments Filed under: Design Pattern, SSIS, SQL Server 2008

• Gartner Ranks Microsoft Business Intelligence At Top

  More info from InformationWeek: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206104502&subSection=News . :{> Andy Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 12:13 PM by andyleonard | 1 Comments Filed under: Software Business, Business Intelligence, Microsoft

• RTM: Windows 2008 and Vista SP1

  Windows Server 2008 was released to manufacturing today along with Windows Vista SP1 . Good stuff. :{> Andy Read More... Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 12:55 PM by andyleonard | 4 Comments Filed under: Software Business