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• Speaking In Kansas City

  I'll be in Kansas City next week doing some SSIS training. I don't think I've ever been to KC so I'm looking forward to the trip! When I found out I would be in town, I dutifully contacted the Kansas City SQL Server Users Group to see if they were having Read More... Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:01 AM by andyleonard | 2 Comments Filed under: Incremental, Developer Community, software developers, database developers

• Finishing Up Better

  More Better Last week I read and blogged about Better by Dr. Atul Gawande. In Part III of the book, Dr. Gawande focuses on Ingenuity with three chapters entitled The Score , The Bell Curve , and For Performance . There are lots of good takeaways for software Read More... Posted Monday, May 5, 2008 12:01 AM by andyleonard | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Business, software developers, database developers, Books

• Better

  It's The Little Things... In Better , Dr. Atul Gawande mentions several basic things medical professionals can do to drastically impact the rate of hospital-passed infection. His first point is: Wash your hands. This seems simple on the surface, but the Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:01 AM by andyleonard | 3 Comments Filed under: software developers, database developers

• SSIS 2008 Data Profiling Task

  Jamie Thomson has posted a great series on the SSIS 2008 Data Profiling Task . The Data Profiling Task allows developers to quickly assess key statistics about data in a database table. When I say "statistics" I mean things like column value and length Read More... Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:01 AM by andyleonard | 4 Comments Filed under: SSIS, database developers, SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence, Data Profiing Task