I’ll be presenting two sessions at SQLSaturday #82 this weekend in Indianapolis.
If you’ve seen my posts about using Biml to generate SSIS packages, and you’d like to learn more, then please check out “Do More (ETL) with Less (Effort) – Automating SSIS”. I’ll talk about the Biml support in BIDS Helper, as well as other approaches for creating SSIS packages without all the manual effort. In my other presentation, “Tuning Analysis Services Processing Performance”, we’ll look at some of the common performance problems people encounter with Analysis Services, and how to resolve them. We’ll also cover a process for doing the tuning.
I really enjoy presenting at SQLSaturday events, and I’m looking forward to this one. I hope to see you there.
Do More (ETL) with Less (Effort) – Automating SSIS
SSIS is a great tool for transferring data from one data source to another, and for implementing complex ETL processes. However, for simple, straightforward data transfer tasks or packages that adhere to a pattern, creating SSIS packages by hand can be time-consuming and repetitious. By attending this session, you’ll learn how to automate package creation in SSIS, including the dynamic generation of data flows. We’ll cover some of the free and open source tools available for this, and discuss “roll your own” options.
Tuning Analysis Services Processing Performance
You’ve got your Analysis Services cube created, and deployed in production. However, you notice that every night, the cube is taking longer and longer to process, and users are starting to complain about their data not being ready when they arrive in the morning. If you’ve found yourself in this situation, or want to avoid being in it in the first place, come to this session. We’ll cover how to benchmark processing performance, track down bottlenecks, and how to tune things to get the best performance for processing your cube.