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Less than 2 Weeks till SQLSaturday #48

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2 Days to SQLSaturday #46

Only 2 days until SQLSaturday #46 – if you aren’t registered yet, there’s still time. $10 for lunch, lots of great speakers, and some really interesting presentations – what better to do on Saturday? If you make it out, look … Continue reading

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Presenting at SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando, FL on October 16, 2010

I have a very busy schedule in October. As already mentioned, I’m presenting at SQLSaturday #48 in Columbia earlier in the month. I also have the privilege of presenting at the Orlando, FL SQLSaturday #49 Continue reading

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Thanks to the Raleigh Triangle SQL User Group

This is overdue (the aforementioned blog problems have delayed a lot of posts), but I wanted to say thanks to the Raleigh, NC TriPASS User Group for Continue reading

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Presenting at SQLSaturday #48 in Columbia, SC on Oct. 2nd

I’m excited to be presenting at the upcoming SQLSaturday #48 in Columbia, SC on October 2, 2010. I get to give two presentations at this one Continue reading

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Presenting at SQLSaturday #46 in Raleigh September 18th, 2010

I’m very happy to be presenting at the upcoming SQLSaturday #46 in Raleigh, NC on September 18th, 2010. I’ll be presenting two sessions, one on Processing Flat Files with SSIS, and the other on Patterns for SSIS Configuration and Deployment. … Continue reading

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It’s Alive!

You may have noticed a real dearth of posts over the last couple of months. That’s been a function of two things: I’ve been very busy at work with the release of Vivid, our Excel OLAP client, and working on … Continue reading

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Moving SSIS Packages with ADO.NET Destinations Between 2008 R2 and 2008

As noted by Matt Masson from the Integration Services team, not much has changed in SSIS 2008 R2. In fact, R2 is pretty much identical, with the exception of the ADO.NET Destination. So if you are developing packages, you can … Continue reading

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Speaking at the Carolina Code Camp

I’ll be presenting a couple of sessions at the Carolina Code Camp on Saturday, May 15th. This will be my second time presenting at the Carolina Code Camp, and I’m looking forward to it. Last time, I had great audience … Continue reading

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T-SQL Tuesday #006 – LOBs in the SSIS Dataflow

The topic for T-SQL Tuesday #006 is LOB data, selected by this month’s host, Michael Coles. If you aren’t familiar with T-SQL Tuesdays, Michael has a nice summary in his post. In database terms, LOBs are Large OBjects, also referred … Continue reading

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