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When? October 4th, 2008 Where? J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College - Parham Road Campus Please take time to register: ClickToAttend Please take time to take a quick survey: Survey link here  More Info: http://www.richmondcodecamp.org See ya there!  

Introduction A few months back I received an email from a nice lady who was beginning to work with SSIS. She was trying to use SSIS to automate metadata collection in her enterprise and she had made a good start in the package she attached to the email. She had a few questions so I opened the package and began poking around some to answer ...

I was asked to put the Richmond Code Camp Powerpoint Presentation up as people wanted the PowerPoint slide deck and the sample code as well. Well, as they say better late than never... I really want to deliver a series that will help developers that are hearing all the talk about SharePoint development but are not certain on how to get ...

Hello all! I want to take a few moments to tell you about some really great things happening at INETA. I was talking to David Silverlight the other day about some of the cool programs that INETA is making available to the developer community, namely the Community Champions Award and the Community Excellence Award. The INETA Community ...

Introduction  On Thursday, 24 Jan 2008, I presented New Features In SSIS 2008 to the Richmond SQL Server Users Group. Most of the presentation was dedicated to demonstrating Change Data Capture (CDC) interacting with SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. I started seriously working on this demo the first week of January, thinking ...

Introduction This post is part of a series of posts on ETL Instrumentation. In Part 1 we built a database to hold collected SSIS run time metrics and an SSIS package to deomnstrate how and why we would load metrics into the database. In Part 2 we expanded on our database and the SSIS package to annotate version metadata, manage error metrics ...

Introduction This post is part of a series of posts on ETL Instrumentation. In Part 1 we built a database to hold collected SSIS run time metrics and an SSIS package to deomnstrate how and why we would load metrics into the database. In Part 2 we expanded on our database and the SSIS package to annotate version metadata, manage error metrics ...

This is part 2 of a 3 part series aimed at understanding how to create and implement custom tasks using either MSBuild or TeamBuild. Click here for part 1. The overall presentation was given at the last Richmond .Net Code Camp.  In part 1 we covered how to add MSBuild to the Visual Studio IDE since the default build engine is not ...

Last week I was out getting some R & R and took some time off blogging & technology in general (the only thing I used was my cell phone ). This week has been catch up . I will have part 2 of Task Master ready soon!

Well all I can say is that I am a very lucky guy. Lucky to be passionate about technology. Lucky to be working in the wonderful storm that is .Net and the architecture that surrounds it. Lucky to be in technology at a time when it seems like, in someways, many of the rules we have lived by in past regarding ...