When: October 15, 2013 8:45 am - 4:45 pm Charlotte, NC Where: Wake Forest University Charlotte Center 200 North College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 What: Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) automates your BI patterns and eliminates the manual repetition that consumes most of your time. Come see why BI professionals ...

In his article Healthcare's Big Problem With Little Data, author Dan Munro raises salient points about the state of health-related data. Electronic Health Records (EHR) were promoted as the end-all-be-all solution for the industry – a standardization that, I suppose, many thought would organically and naturally occur, stabilize, and be ...

Join SQL Server MVP Tim Mitchell (blog | @Tim_Mitchell) and I as we demonstrate and discuss the many uses of scripting in SQL Server 2012 Integration Services 8 May 2013 at 11:00 AM EDT! In this demo-packed session, two co-authors of the book SSIS Design Patterns share their experience using the Script Task and Script Component to accomplish ...

Kent Bradshaw and I are pleased to announce another free webinar: Medical Data Integration with SSIS 2012, Part 2 - Providers and Drugs. Register today! The recording of the first part of this series is available here.  :{>

I am honored to present Creating a Custom SSIS Task this Saturday – 13 Apr 2013 – at SQL Saturday 189 – Costa Rica! Espero que se unan a mí! :{>

PASS Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Virtual Chapter Co-ChairWeb: http://bi.sqlpass.org | Email: PASSDWBIVC@sqlpass.org | Twitter: @PASSBIVC  Friday February 22nd 11am EST(US)Hacking the SSIS 2012 CatalogSpeaker: Andy ...

Are you using Biml yet? Why not?! Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) speeds and simplifies SSIS development and improves code quality. There's a good reason that sounds like a win/win - it is a win/win! Best of all, BidsHelper supports Biml and it is free. BimlScript.com contains a collection of sample, ...

I will be unveiling a shiny new presentation – Hacking the SSIS 2012 Catalog – at the SQL Server Innovators Guild in Greenville South Carolina 5 Feb 2013! The location of the meeting is: ECPI, Greenville, SC 1001 Keys Dr Greenville, SC 29615 If you will be in the area that evening and if you read this blog, stop by and introduce ...

Want to learn more about SSIS? I  can help. In my course - From Zero To SSIS – I teach you how to effectively use SSIS to deliver data integration solutions. This is not a market-y survey of the bells and whistles contained in SSIS. I focus on the tasks data integration and ETL developers will use to produce SSIS packages in the enterprise. ...

A while back I asked myself: “Self, do you think it is possible to create a custom SSIS 2012 task using Visual Studio 2012 Express?” That question launched a quest to learn the answer. In this series of posts I describe what I learned: Creating a Custom SSIS 2012 Task – The Rambling Introduction Creating a Custom Task in SSIS 2012 – ...