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 Integration! This precon is all about DILM (Data integration Lifecycle Management). Abstract: SSIS Design ...

While I was working on a package to incrementally load a dimension in the DWH I’m developing for a customer, I stumbled upon a tricky little bug (I think, I still have to have a response from MS) that had – and will have – a little impact on how I create my packages. I’ve found that, when working on an empty table that has an identity column, if ...

I am honored and so excited to be presenting a couple sessions at the PASS Summit in Denver next month! One presentation is entitled Integrate Your SSIS Development. The focus is on SSIS development and testing. I touch on continuous integration and test-first development - using Team Foundation Server for the CI and Team ...