• Thanks very much, that was an excellent read.

    Being a one man band now, i find i avoid the SQL Server tools.

    I use power query instead of ssis and make tabular models in the data model.

    I find myself having moved what i can to PowerBI, learning to transfer and bumping along as i go.

    I haven't touched SSRS in a long time.

    As a result I picked up just enough R to run ggplot2 & fooled around in shiny (no java needed) because of it!

    But its a big pie 🙂

    thanks again