I learned a couple weeks back my proposal for a pre- or post-conference seminar entitled ''From Zero to SSIS'' had been selected as an alternate at the PASS Summit 2009. I was a little disappointed,  but then I looked at the incredible speakers and topics selected for pre- and post-conference seminars here.  These seminars ...

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 distribution, column null ratio, column patterns, and functional dependencies. You ...