Thursday, January 18, 2007 - Posts

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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posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:18 PM by andy with 0 Comments

SQL Snack

...from theDailtyWTF: Chocolate Covered SQL


...spaces in the table and field names. Easier to read or just three extra characters to type?

Thanks Frank for sending me this!

:{> Andy

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posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:06 PM by andy with 0 Comments