I’m going to Nottingham, England, fabled home of Robin Hood, where I’m going to eat fish and chips and talk about SSIS. How’s that for tying seemingly unrelated topics together? I’m happy to report that in addition to my full-day preconference seminar at SQLBits, I’ll also be delivering a regular session entitled Cleaning Up Dirty Data with SSIS on Friday,…
I’m happy to announce that I’ve been selected to deliver a full day of training at the upcoming SQLBits conference in Nottingham, England. This will be my first time taking part in SQLBits (in fact, it will be my first trip to the U.K.) and I’m very much looking forward to the experience. I’ll be delivering a full day presentation…
OK, I’m not really going to break it. I’m just going to beat it up a little bit. This Thursday evening, I’ll be working my home turf at the North Texas SQL Server User Group monthly meeting, presenting “When ETL Goes Bad: Handling Errors and Anomalies in SSIS” at 6:15 at the Microsoft campus. In this hour-long presentation, I’ll go…
Do your civic duty, and vote today! Voting is now open for SQLBits, to be held in Nottingham, UK this May. This event is probably the best-known SQL Server event outside of the US, and unlike most other such events, they use a popular-vote model for general session selection. I’ve submitted three general sessions: When ETL Goes Bad: Handling Errors…
During my visit to Denver last September for SQL Saturday 52, I spent a while talking with Marc Beacom, who mentioned that the 3 PASS chapters in and around Denver hold their monthly meetings on consecutive nights. When I brought up my love for snowskiing, he suggested that we combine a ski trip with a speaking trip. Thus began the…
Next week, I’ll be making a swing through central Colorado on a working vacation of sorts. I met up with Marc Beacom when I went up to Denver to speak at their SQL Saturday in September, and he mentioned that they have three user groups (Boulder, Colorado Springs, and Denver) that meet on three consecutive nights each month. My love…
Join me next Tuesday, December 14th at 11:00am CST as I present a webcast on behalf of the PASS AppDev Virtual Chapter. I’ll be presenting “Dynamic SSIS with Expressions and Configurations”, where I show you how to remove static elements (such as connection strings, file names, and other transient values) from your packages and placing them in easier-to-administer configurations or…