At February 25th March the 4th 2021 I’ll be giving a webinar on the MSSQLTips.com website. The topic is Integration Services. This webinar is meant as an introduction for beginners. The abstract: For years, Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been the tool in the data platform stack to integrate, move and transform your […]
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Migrating SSIS to Azure – an Overview
For quite some time now, there’s been the possibility to lift-and-shift your on-premises SSIS project to Azure Data Factory. There, they run in an Integration Runtime, a cluster of virtual machines that will execute your SSIS packages. In the beginning, you only had the option to use the project deployment model and host your SSIS […]
Exporting Environment Variables out of the SSIS Catalog
Sometimes when you’ve created a SSIS catalog, along with folders, environments and environment variables, you want this content on another server. Unfortunately, you can only script out these objects in SSMS at the moment you’re creating them (thus right before you clikc ‘OK’ to confirm). Once the objects are created, you can no longer script […]
Skip Validation of SSIS Packages
There’s been an update of the SSIS extension for Visual Studio 2019. There are some bug fixes and deployments are blocked to Azure-SSIS if the target server version is not SQL Server 2017, but the real killer feature is the ability to now skip validation of an SSIS package when you open it. This might […]
Speaking at DataMinds Connect 2020
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be speaking again at DataMinds Connect this year, one of the greatest and best Microsoft Data Platform conferences on the European mainland. Due to the pandemic, this year edition is virtual, but this also means: more sessions! And a deep-dive track! And the event itself is free! The agenda is […]
The Azure-SSIS IR Startup Time
UPDATE: here’s an official blog post going in more technical detail on how they achieved the improvements in startup time If you want to run SSIS packages in Azure Data Factory, you need the Azure SSIS Integration Runtime (quite the mouthful), which is basically a cluster of virtual machines handling the packages like an SSIS […]
Migrating SSIS to Azure – Slidedeck (Techorama 2019)
Techorama 2019 is over and it was a blast, as usual. Neatly organised, great speakers and fantastic content. I delivered a session on Migrating SSIS to Azure (Data Factory). You can find the slidedeck on SlideShare: Migrating SSIS to the cloud from KoenVerbeeck
SSIS 2019 has arrived!
It is not a joke: SSIS is available for Visual Studio 2019 as a preview. Whoa, hold on. SQL Server 2019 hasn’t been released yet? But there’s already an SSIS 2019? Didn’t we have to wait months after the release of SQL Server 2017 before we had an SSIS version for Visual Studio 2017? Yes, […]
SSIS and Data Quality Webcast
On Thursday the 2nd of May, I’ll be giving a webcast for MSSQLTips.com about data quality and SSIS. The abstract: SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been around for more than a decade in the Microsoft Data Platform stack. It’s a widely used ETL tool, allowing you to integrate and transform data from various sources. […]
Speaking at Techorama 2019
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be giving a talk at Techorama 2019. It’s one of the best events I’ve ever been to and I’ll be in the good company of Grant Fritchey, Jen Stirrup, Pinal Dave and Brent Ozar (+ many others)! That’s right, the line-up for the data platform is amazing, so be sure […]