June 2014

Mile High Tech Con

There’s a brand new business intelligence conference launching next month in Denver, Colorado.  The Mile High Tech Con is a three-day event taking place July 24-26, 2014, and is aimed at business intelligence practitioners, data analysts, and information managers/CIOs. From the event website: Featuring three days of sessions and events focusing on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Mile High Tech…


SSIS Parent-Child Architecture in Package Deployment Mode

In my first post in this series, I covered the essentials of SSIS parent-child design patterns, including discussing a number of advantages for using such patterns.  In this post, I’m going to demonstrate how to build parent-child structures using package deployment mode. SSIS Parent-Child Architecture in Package Deployment Mode Package deployment mode is available (though not the default behavior) in…


Speaking at the SQL PASS 2014 Summit

I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at the SQL PASS Summit this fall.  The summit will be held during the first week of November in Seattle, Washington.  This will be my seventh year attending the PASS Summit, and my fourth year as a speaker. This year I will be delivering a new presentation entitled “Building Bullet-Resistant SSIS…