My fellow authors and I will be presenting a day-long pre-conference session titled SSIS Design Patterns at the PASS Summit 2012 in Seattle Monday 5 Nov 2012! Register to learn patterns for: Package execution Package logging Loading flat file sources Loading XML sources Loading the cloud Dynamic package generation SSIS ...

As in the past, I am sharing my PASS Summit 2011 evaluation results. As also in the past, I explain that I do this because I want to improve my serve. If this kind of post makes you uncomfortable for any reason, please stop now and go read Brent’s awesome post on improving your evaluation numbers. It has awesome advice (as usual). I encourage ...

I was honored to participate in delivering several presentations at the PASS Summit 2011. I received lots of feedback. I am sharing portions of the feedback from session evaluations, as in years past. The scale is 1 to 5: 1 - Very Poor, 2 - Poor, 3 - Average, 4 - Good, 5 – Excellent. I sincerely appreciate the feedback provided here. I promise to ...

In my post last night entitled Note to Self: No Head Injuries Before Presenting I told the story of a Lightning Talk presentation. I really liked the pictures that didn’t make it into the session. Since I worked so hard on them, I wanted to show the slides with the pictures: :{>

Murphy (of Murphy’s Law fame) was in attendance at my Lightning Talk presentation earlier today. First, I followed an outstanding and precedent-setting performance by Rob Farley (Blog | @rob_farley | SQLPeople) accompanied by Buck Woody (Blog | @buckwoody | SQLPeople). They presented an original song about query tuning written by Rob. It was ...

Matt Masson, Tim Mitchell, and I are presenting A Day of SSIS in the Enterprise Monday 10 Oct 2011! The following is cross-posted from the PASS Blog: Today's post is from Andy Leonard who, along with Tim Mitchell, will be presenting "A Day of SSIS in the Enterprise". You can read more about his session here: ...

Introduction I am honored to be presenting at the PASS Summit 2011 11-14 Oct 2011 in Seattle! This year, I was selected to present a regular session and a pre-conference session. The pre-con is going to be fun. It’s a team effort with Tim Mitchell (Blog | @Tim_Mitchell| SQLPeople) and – even though he isn’t listed as a presenter – Matt Masson ...

Introduction It is always an honor to present – always. This year I have submitted four presentations to the PASS Summit 2011. You can view my submissions, as well as those of others, here. A Day of SSIS in the Enterprise Pre-conference session, 7 hours In this day-long seminar, SQL Server MVPs Andy Leonard and Tim Mitchell - along with ...