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Andy Leonard is CSO of Linchpin People and SQLPeople, an SSIS Trainer, Consultant, and 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!
February 2010 - Posts
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Introduction This post is the thirteenth part of a ramble-rant about the software business. The current posts in this series are: Goodwill, Negative and Positive Visions, Quests, Missions Right, Wrong, and Style Follow Me Balance, Part 1 Balance, Part Read More...
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On 11 Mar 2010, I am honored to co-present Improving Data Integration Performance with expressor software's ( Web - @expressor ) Director of Field Engineering Michael Ruland. Working with Michael the past few weeks has been a lot of fun and I hope that Read More...
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Introduction SQL Saturdays continue to grow in popularity and the franchise recently changed hands. Recently, I interviewed Andy Warren ( Blog - @sqlAndy ) about the growth of SQL Saturday, the impact of the franchise on the SQL Server community, and Read More...
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Introduction This post is the twelfth part of a ramble-rant about the software business. The current posts in this series are: Goodwill, Negative and Positive Visions, Quests, Missions Right, Wrong, and Style Follow Me Balance, Part 1 Balance, Part 2 Read More...
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Woo hoo! There's another MSDN Roadshow coming to town 3 Mar 2010! G. Andrew Duthie ( Blog - @devhammer ) is co-presenting a 4-hour session on Azure and Windows 7 (among other topics) with David Isbitski ( Blog - @thedavedev ). I plan to be there! :{> Read More...
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Introduction This SSIS Snack is a continuation of a couple previous SSIS Snacks: SSIS Snack: Configuring an SSIS 2005 Lookup Transformation for a Left Outer Join (please see the clarification SSIS Snack: SSIS 2005 Lookup Transformations 101 ) and SSIS Read More...
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I have a question for you today: How do you deploy a SQL Server database? Please leave a comment with your answer. This isn't a trap or trick question. I want to know how you go from no database to a database on an instance of SQL Server. Comments are Read More...
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Introduction This post is the eleventh part of a ramble-rant about the software business. The current posts in this series are: Goodwill, Negative and Positive Visions, Quests, Missions Right, Wrong, and Style Follow Me Balance, Part 1 Balance, Part 2 Read More...
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Introduction I got ahead of myself in a post entitled SSIS Snack: Configuring an SSIS 2005 Lookup Transformation for a Left Outer Join and my friend Eric Wisdahl ( Blog ) called my out in the comments . A Good Test If you've not been warned previously, Read More...
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Steve Jones ( Blog - @way0utwest ) shares he found a post confirming Microsoft's intention to deliver a Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2005 ! Cool. Thanks for responding to the community, Microsoft. When SQL Server 2005 was released, the community told Read More...
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Introduction This post is the tenth part of a ramble-rant about the software business. The current posts in this series are: Goodwill, Negative and Positive Visions, Quests, Missions Right, Wrong, and Style Follow Me Balance, Part 1 Balance, Part 2 Definition Read More...
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Introduction In this SSIS Snack, I continue with the package in the last SSIS Snack . The Data Flow Task in the package currently looks like this: Configure a Conditional Split Drag a Conditional Split Transformation onto the Data Flow canvas and connect Read More...
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Introduction Even though the weather outside is frightful and despite the predictions of the ground hog, there are signs of Spring in southern Virginia. Our ornamental pear tree has small buds appearing on the branches, the birds are fidgety, and my friends Read More...
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Introduction In SSIS 2005, the Lookup Transformation will fail if it does not find a matching record in the lookup table if configured with the default settings. Build the Data Flow Create a Data Flow Task and add an OLEDB Source. In the OLEDB Source Read More...
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Introduction This post is the ninth part of a ramble-rant about the software business. The current posts in this series are: Goodwill, Negative and Positive Visions, Quests, Missions Right, Wrong, and Style Follow Me Balance, Part 1 Balance, Part 2 Definition Read More...
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Introduction Andy Warren ( Blog - @sqlAndy ) is a DBA's DBA. He is a friend and mentor. He calls 'em like he sees 'em, and I haven't seen him pull a punch yet. I requested an interview with Andy before I learned of the transfer of SQL Saturday to PASS. Read More...
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Introduction I maintain the best way to start a blog post or article is with an image that grabs the reader's attention. So I asked my good friend Frank La Vigne ( Blog - @Tableteer ) to help me out some with his mad Photoshop skillz. TBDDEOTP While describing Read More...
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Introduction I got a cool email from Chris Shaw ( Web - Blog - @SQLShaw ) at the end of January. It began: There are few DBA’s here in Colorado Springs that thought it would be fun to go through the book chapter by chapter and talk about what we got out Read More...
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Introduction A while back I wrote about developer communities. The series consists of these posts: First , you need a team builder You can run a company like a user group, but the inverse is not always true Quality always works People are not resources Read More...
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Introduction This post is the eighth part of a ramble-rant about the software business. The current posts in this series are: Goodwill, Negative and Positive Visions, Quests, Missions Right, Wrong, and Style Follow Me Balance, Part 1 Balance, Part 2 Definition Read More...
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