I’ve been working with SSIS for a decade now (all versions, 2005 right until 2017), but it’s been just until recently that I got my hands on Pentaho Data Integration (PDI). PDI is the ETL tool of the Pentaho suite and is maybe most commonly known as kettle. You’ve got an Enterprise edition (which ain’t […]
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Book Review – Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE
Yes, you’re reading that right. A book not about the Microsoft BI stack. At a project, Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) was used as an ETL tool. To get to know this tool a little better, I bought the book Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE (Third Edition) by the author Maria Carina Roldán. For those of […]
T-SQL Tuesday #99 – Door #2
This months T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Aaron Bertrand and the topic is Dealer’s Choice. Aaron gives us the choice to blog about a topic of our choice, either about a passion outside of the SQL Server community, or about a T-SQL bad habit. In this blog post, I’ll tackle the second option, but I […]
T-SQL Tuesday #74: Be the Change
It’s the second Tuesday of the month and you know what that means! T-SQL Tuesday time! If you don’t know what it means, T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party of the SQL Server community – started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) – where everyone is invited to write about a common topic. This month’s T-SQL […]