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Last post on presentations for a while, I think / hope. I'll be presenting on Unit Testing in SSIS at the PASS Summit 2008, occurring in Seattle, WA from Nov. 18-21. There's lots of great content planned at PASS this year, and it's definitely worth attending. If you are there, drop by the session and say hello.

I'm doing a couple of chalk talks at the Microsoft BI Conference, occurring in Seattle, WA on October 6-8. The chalk talks are a different format than the typical presentation: smaller audience, no (or very few) slides, and more conversational in format. I'm doing one on unit testing for SSIS, and another on building custom components for SSIS. I ...

There's a SQL Saturday coming up in Greenville, SC on October 11th. It's a free, day long event with a number of great speakers doing sessions. I don't include myself in the great speaker category, but I was asked to present a couple of sessions on SSIS, including one on data profiling in the ETL process, one of my favorite topics. Again, it's ...

but not very far, just to Nov. 5-7. In order to provide more value to attendees, the BI conference is being run at the same time as the SharePoint, SQL, and .NET conferences. So now, instead of just having access to the BI content, you'll be able to pick and choose session from all four conferences. Personally, I love the idea of 3 days of solid ...

One of the staples in agile (and many other methodologies) development is the idea of iterative development. That's the idea that, rather than doing an entire project in one big pass, it is broken up into smaller iterations. Each iteration ideally consists of a specific set of deliverables with value to the end user (ideally working ...