Apr-2013 ~ SSIS Best Practices, Tips and Techniques ~ Bryan Cafferky

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Presenter: Bryan Cafferky
Topic: SSIS Best Practices, Tips and Techniques
Downloads: SSIS Presentation (.zip)

Join us for this presentation on the best practices, tips and techniques of leveraging SSIS. Learn how to load any external file confidently and easily, how to take direct control of SSIS processes using the Script Task and the Script Component, how to select the best configuration and deployment approach to meet your requirements, how to design a package to make it flexible and extensible. This promises to be a meeting where you will come away with new ideas and techniques to apply in your job.

Biography:

Bryan is an experienced Business Intelligence engineer who has been developing solutions with SSIS since it was first released. He has been developing for and administering relational databases since 1987 and started working with SQL Server in 1998. He has written a number of articles on www.BIDN.com and leads The Rhode Island Business Intelligence User Group which he founded. Bryan currently works as Senior Business Intelligence Engineer with Smarter Travel Media, a TripAdvisor Company. He has worked in the insurance, banking, utilities, and ecommerce industries.

Mar-2013 ~ Why is an SSIS Framework important? ~ James Phillips

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FREE! Query Optimizer eBook and SQL Prompt trial

This free ebook from Red Gate Software will take you from the fundamentals of Statistics, Cost Estimation, Index Selection, and the Execution Engine, and guide you through the inner workings of the Query Optimization process, and throws in a pragmatic look at Parameterization and Hints along the way. Download it now

Presenter: James Phillips
Topic:Why is an SSIS Framework important?

In this session we will discuss why an SSIS framework is critical for a successful ETL design, delivery and overall long term success. We will start with some overall best practices, then show you how to create a framework and implement it. When you have completed this session you should have all you need in order to make sure your future ETL projects are successful.

Biography:

James Phillips is a Sr. BI Consultant with Pragmatic works and has over 15 years of IT experience with the last 10 years being focused on Business Intelligence Technologies.  He has been primarily focused on consulting within the BI space for the past few years and delivering solid solutions solving complex business problems within the Microsoft BI Stack.

Feb-2013 ~ Windowing Functions and SQL Server ~ Christina Leo

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Presenter: Christina Leo
Topic: Windowing Functions and SQL Server

Biography:

Christina has worked with various database platforms since 1994. She has earned her MCITP Developer/Adminstrator for SQL Sever 2005. Christina currently works with a small team of database developers and business analysts supporting a 5TB, and growing, research database used by the firm’s quantitative analysts to make their investment decisions.

Jan-2013 ~ Building Your Own Monitors with the SQL Agent ~ Mike Hillwig

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Presenter: Mike Hillwig
Topic: Building Your Own Monitors with the SQL Agent
Downloads: Available at CrankyDBA.com

See those things around your ankles? You hope they’re your socks because no DBA wants to be caught with their pants down. Whether you’re an accidental DBA, a DBA who has just inherited a bunch of servers, or someone who works in a shop that won’t buy monitoring tools, this session will help you get basic monitoring in place to make sure you know what’s going on in your environment. You’ll learn how to implement simple scripts that perk their ears up and start barking like a dog after a stranger walks in the house. Best of all, Mike will show you how ANY query can be turned into a monitor. So if you need to look for any condition in your application, it can be monitored.

Biography:

Native Pittsburgher and Boston resident Mike Hillwig is a senior SQL Server DBA for a provider of private cloud-based solutions for the financial industry He’s been working with SQL Server since version 7 and has a background in infrastructure and networking.