When: October 15, 2013 8:45 am - 4:45 pm Charlotte, NC Where: Wake Forest University Charlotte Center 200 North College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 What: Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) automates your BI patterns and eliminates the manual repetition that consumes most of your time. Come see why BI professionals ...

In his article Healthcare's Big Problem With Little Data, author Dan Munro raises salient points about the state of health-related data. Electronic Health Records (EHR) were promoted as the end-all-be-all solution for the industry – a standardization that, I suppose, many thought would organically and naturally occur, stabilize, and be ...

The recording of the presentation Using Enterprise Data Integration Dashboards is now available! Enjoy! :{>

Join Kent Bradshaw and I as we present Using Enterprise Data Integration Dashboards Tuesday 11 Dec 2012 at 10:00 AM ET! If data is the life of the modern organization, data integration is the heart of an enterprise. Data circulation is vital. Data integration dashboards provide enterprise ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) teams near-real-time ...

I am honored to present SQL Server 2012 Design Patterns at the University of Virginia’s Local Support Partners Fall Conference 2012 tomorrow! :{>

I am honored to present “Using Biml as a Design Patterns Engine” to the Himalayan SQL Server User Group 29 Sep 2012 at 3:00 PM (+5:45). Registration is open! :{>

My fellow authors and I will be presenting a day-long pre-conference session titled SSIS Design Patterns at the PASS Summit 2012 in Seattle Monday 5 Nov 2012! Register to learn patterns for: Package execution Package logging Loading flat file sources Loading XML sources Loading the cloud Dynamic package generation SSIS ...

Update: I will not be able to attend SQL Saturday 158 due to illness. - Andy  I am honored to present two sessions at SQL Saturday #158 in New York City this Saturday (4 Aug 2012)! I am delivering two sessions: Designing an SSIS Framework and Loading the Cloud. It is also very cool to see the Linchpin People logo on the Sponsors ...

I am honored to present Using BIML as an SSIS Design Patterns Engine to the Hampton Roads SQL Server and SharePoint User Group Wednesday, 18 Jul 2012! Register here. Will you be in the Hampton Roads area next Wednesday? If so, drop by and introduce yourself. I'm the fat guy with a fu. :{>

I am honored to present Designing an SSIS Framework to the Wichita SQL Server User Group 21 Jun 2012! If you are in the area and read this blog, stop by and introduce yourself. I am the fat guy with a fu. :{>