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Andy Leonard is CSO of Linchpin People and SQLPeople, an SSIS Trainer, Consultant, and developer; SQL Server database and data warehouse developer, community mentor, engineer, and farmer. He is a co-author of SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns. His background includes web application architecture and development, VB, and ASP. Andy loves the SQL Server Community!
December 2009 - Posts
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The series of posts that generated the most email for me was the series entitled On Developer Communities. I've included links to the posts, in order, here: First , you need a team builder . You can run a company like a user group, but the inverse is Read More...
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Introduction A friend and I shared a recent instant-message conversation and she told me one of the two netbooks she ordered had been stolen in transit. They are gifts for her children and one gift is gone, within two weeks of Christmas. Tracking numbers Read More...
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My latest article - Scripting in SSIS-Part 1 - is available today at SQLServerCentral.com ! :{> Read More...
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Introduction I received the following questions (paraphrased) from a friend: I'm building an ETL process with SSIS in which I pull from about 40 tables in DB2. I put the data into staging tables in a SQL Server database. Is it better to have one package Read More...
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When I was 20 years old (yes, that was a while ago) I found myself unemployed. Being 20 and unemployed isn't that unusual. But I was married and the father of a beautiful and precocious 18-month-old daughter. My mother had recently divorced my father Read More...
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Introduction If you haven't previously been warned: I am an engineer. I tinker here and there with social media. I've been mining Twitter as part of my fascination with Social Intelligence (BI applied to social media). Measuring Twitter I was reading Read More...
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Introduction I got some cool responses to my post Blog (Durnit!) . This includes at least one blog, Adventures In SQL , by David Levy ( Blog / Twitter ), started as a result! Wow, how cool! Reading comments and email, I realize I left out one important Read More...
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Introduction I've decided to blog some about social media and social intelligence. Why? Actually, this tweet from K. Brian Kelley ( @kbriankelley ) prompted it. I don't believe I'm a pied piper. I have a knack for recognizing good (and profitable) ideas Read More...
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Introduction The past few days I've read several blurbs from folks expressing why they don't blog. The reasons range from "I have nothing interesting to say" to "I don't know enough" to "Everything I want to write about has been blogged already." Pfffft Read More...
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I'm honored to present Database Design for Developers to the Southern Maryland .Net Users Group ! I'll be there Monday evening, 14 Dec 2009, and the meeting starts at 6:30. If you read this blog and attend, be sure to introduce yourself! :{> Andy Read More...
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Adam Machanic is hosting this month's T-SQL Tuesday (the first!) on Date/Time Tricks . I thought I'd share a couple datetime SSIS Expressions I use regularly to format dates. First, I created an SSIS solution named ExpressionsTester, to which I added Read More...
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Introduction I've been blogging about SQL Server MVP Deep Dives ( Manning Publications , 2009) recently: Interview with Some SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Editors Interview with Some SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Authors This is another in that series... PASS Read More...
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Join the Richmond developer community for a free, one-day training for SQL Server professionals, developers, DBAs, and even people who don't know how to spell SQL. When: January 30, 2010 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM Where: ECPI College of Technology 4305 Cox Rd Read More...
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Introduction I recently emailed the authors of SQL Server MVP Deep Dives ( Manning Publications , 2009). I asked them one question: You have a life, a job, family... why contribute to a book and donate the royalties to War Child? Some of the responses Read More...
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