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Presentations Galore!

Presentations Galore!

I’m mentally preparing myself for a whole slew of upcoming conferences / speaking engagements over the next month and a half. I love talking about SQL Server technologies, and I’m honored that I’ll have so many chances to do it in the next few weeks! Please come see me at one (or more) of the … Continued

My Sessions at the 2012 PASS Summit

TechEd has its appeal, but of all of the conferences I attend, I must admit that I love the PASS Summit most. I look forward to it every year. The event is physically and mentally exhausting, but I always come home feeling refreshed and inspired. I really enjoy meeting people who use the products I … Continued

SQL Saturday #146 | Nashua, New Hampshire

SQL Saturday #146 | Nashua, New Hampshire

I’ve been invited to speak at SQL Saturday #146 in Nashua in October. I’ll be presenting two talks related to Data Movement: Efficient On-Premise to Cloud Data Transfer Thinking about moving some of your operations to Azure? Have multiple remote sites, and want to use the cloud to centralize and share data between them?? Just … Continued

SSIS Design Patterns During the 24 Hours of PASS

Jessica Moss (Blog | Twitter) and Michelle Ufford (Blog | Twitter) will be presenting SSIS Design Patterns for Fun and Profit during the Fall 2012 24 Hours of PASS event to promote our pre-con session and the SSIS Design Patterns book. They are Session 15 on the schedule, which means they’ll be presenting on Friday, … Continued

Learn more about SSIS Design Patterns at the 2012 PASS Summit

Learn more about SSIS Design Patterns at the 2012 PASS Summit

We managed to bring together the entire author team for the SSIS Design Patterns book to run a pre-conference event at the 2012 PASS Summit. I posted about this when it was first announced, but since our book came out today, I thought it would be a good time to post a reminder. We’ve been … Continued

SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns comes out tomorrow!

SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns comes out tomorrow!

My first SSIS book – SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns (Apress) – will be released tomorrow (9/5). In addition to some of the design patterns that I typically talk about in my presentations, it has some great content from the co-authors on the book – Andy Leonard, Tim Mitchell, Jessica Moss, and Michelle … Continued

PASS Summit 2012 – SSIS Pre-Conference Event

PASS Summit 2012 – SSIS Pre-Conference Event

Well, I guess Andy, Tim & I did a good job at PASS last year, as we’ve been invited back to present another SSIS pre-conference event at the 2012 PASS Summit. This time we’ll be joined by the co-authors of our SSIS Design Patterns book, Jessica Moss and Michelle Ufford.   SSIS Design Patterns Speaker(s): … Continued

Speaking at SQL Saturday #111 | Atlanta

Speaking at SQL Saturday #111 | Atlanta

Wow, what a lineup for SQL Saturday #111. I’m still amazed and honored anytime I’m on a speaker list of this caliber! I’ll be co-presenting a pre-con event (full day training) with Andy Leonard on April 13th, and talking about SSIS in SQL Server 2012 as part of the main event. Rumor has it that … Continued

Speaking at SQL Saturday #105 in Dublin, Ireland

Speaking at SQL Saturday #105 in Dublin, Ireland

I’m honored to be presenting at SQL Saturday #105 in Dublin, Ireland on March 24th. They recently added a 4th session track to keep up with demand, and I was more than happy to fill in one of the timeslots with a session about the developer experience enhancements in SSIS 2012. I’ll also be covering … Continued