January 2014

SSIS and PowerPivot training in Baton Rouge

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be teaming up with my Linchpin People colleague Bill Pearson for a day of BI and SSIS training next month.  On Wednesday, February 12th, we’ll each be delivering a full-day presentation in Baton Rouge, after which we’ll be joining the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group for their monthly meeting. I’ll be presenting Real…


New Blog Series: Parent-Child Architecture in SSIS

I’m kicking off a new series of blog posts discussing the topic of parent-child architectures in SQL Server Integration Services.  The links to the posts in this series are below. Parent-Child SSIS Architecture SSIS Parent-Child Architecture in Package Deployment Mode SSIS Parent-Child Architecture in Catalog Deployment Mode I still remember the first SSIS package I ever deployed to a production environment. …


Goodbye, 2013

For me, 2013 was one of the most interesting and busy years of my life.  It was a good year for me, especially on the career front, and it’s certainly been the busiest year in several years.  Among the highlights of 2013: Going independent The most significant event for me this year was when I fulfilled a long-time dream of…