For the past two years, I have had the honor and privilege or authoring SSIS Design Patterns alongside Jessica Moss, Michelle Ufford, Tim Mitchell, and Matt Masson. Publication of the book – like many projects of this scope – has been delayed. The current publication date is 27 Aug 2012 and I have high confidence in this date. I take ...

New Jersey SQL Server User Group (NJSQL) is bringing SQLSaturday #39 to NYC on April 24, 2010!  The free all-day training event will be hosted by Microsoft at their Midtown Manhattan offices.  The speaker line-up is growing fast—if you'd like to present, visit the event's open call for speakers.  This is a free full-day ...

Business Intelligence at RESTSeptember 8th at 1:00 PM EasternPresenter: Andy Leonard  I am honored to present Business Intelligence at REST to the PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter on 8 Sep 2009! This is going to be a fun presentation for me. I'm going to talk about my weather station and some business intelligence I've wrapped ...

I'm honored to present Incremental Loads, Change Data Capture, and SSIS 2008 to the Columbus SQL Server Users Group tomorrow evening! This is the first remote presentation I've attempted in a while. I won't be in physical attendance, only virtually. I'll be in my office in Farmville, VA. Isn't technology cool? :{> Andy

I will be presenting Change Data Capture, Incremental ETL, and SSIS 2008 to Philadelphia Code Camp 2008.2 Saturday, 17 May 2008! The good folks in Philadelphia always do a great job with Code Camps and the attendance numbers are growing to reflect that! They're sold out again. Great job! :{> Andy

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 ...