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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• MVPs and the Community

  Introduction Earlier this month, David Woods decided to drop his MVP award . The move inspired some interesting comments and discussion among MVPs. David's points are: MVP Expertise Microsoft Technology Products Microsoft "Listens" Cost-Benefits for an Read More... Posted Friday, February 11, 2011 11:51 AM by andyleonard | 5 Comments Filed under: Developer Community, Microsoft, MVP

• Microsoft TechEd Session Preference Survey

  There's a Session Preference Survey live at the TechEd North America 2011 website . I like this idea a lot: getting feedback from the Community! :{> Read More... Posted Saturday, January 15, 2011 1:00 PM by andyleonard | 5 Comments Filed under: Developer Community, Microsoft, TechEd

• And The Winner Is...

  David Taylor! There were a lot of really great comments on the post titled A Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Seeding Card Giveaway Contest ! The judging was completely subjective - just me reading the comments and making a call. One suggestion was apparently Read More... Posted Friday, July 09, 2010 12:00 AM by andyleonard | 1 Comments Filed under: Developer Community, Microsoft, MSDN

• A Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Seeding Card Giveaway Contest

  I have a Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Seeding Card to give away. It's good for a year. Rather than just hand it out, I've decided to hold and judge a contest. So tell me - in the comments of this post - what cool project you would like to use the software Read More... Posted Saturday, July 03, 2010 8:00 AM by andyleonard | 19 Comments Filed under: Developer Community, Microsoft, MSDN

• Azure MSDN Roadshow - Richmond, VA - 3 Mar 2010

  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... Posted Monday, February 22, 2010 8:00 AM by andyleonard | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer Community, Microsoft, Azure

• Databash

  Introduction I just wrapped up an ETL With SSIS class in the Rochester, NY area and one of the students in the class pointed out "You haven't blogged in over a week!" He's right - I need to blog more and more often. I've been distracted with preparations Read More... Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:55 PM by andyleonard | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer Community, Microsoft