The Freezing Redneck Tour 2007 rolls on...
This evenings' blog entry is brought to you by Duke Athletic ThermaForm® Long Underwear - especially the Hood:
Is it me, or does this scream "Finish Him!"?
My first ETL with SSIS class in Minneapolis is complete and went well, I think. A large part of the success for this - and all the ETL with SSIS classes I've led thus far - can be attributed to the fact that only cool people attend.
It's always great to hear how someone met and overcame a data warehouse or ETL challenge. I believe I learn more than anyone else!
I had a handful of good stumper questions about migration from DTS to SSIS - excellent blog fodder. And late this afternoon I saw a cool demonstration of DTS packages stored in SQL Server 2005 (thanks Rajesh!). I am building a new VPC now for a SQL Server 2k instance to test (and blog) against.
Buck, Chavez, John, Doug, and Eric also taught an old dog some new SSIS tricks. :)
Minneapolis is awesome! It's been cold here - 6 below Tuesday morning - but it reached a balmy 25 here today (with flurries, of course!). Folks tell me it's been a warm winter here until now. I'll be back week after next - maybe it will start warming up again... :)
Here's hoping the travel tomorrow is uneventful...
:{> Andy
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