Tim Mitchell

Tim Mitchell is a business intelligence consultant, author, and trainer. He has been building data solutions for over 20 years, and is a 13-time recipient of the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award (2010-2022). He is the founder and principal data architect at Tyleris Data Solutions.

Tim has spoken at international and local events including the SQL PASS Summit, SQLBits, SQL Connections, along with dozens of tech fests, code camps, and SQL Saturday events. He is the author of the book The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure, coauthor of the book SSIS Design Patterns, and is a contributing author on the charity book project MVP Deep Dives Vol 2.

You can visit his website and blog at TimMitchell.net or follow him on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/tmitch.net.
  • Interests: SQL Server, Data Warehousing, ETL, Data Architecture, Python, Dbt

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Managing Bad Data

In the last post in my ongoing series about ETL best practices, I discussed the importance of error handling in ETL...

2017-02-21 (first published: )

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What is ETL?

In my ongoing series on ETL Best Practices, I am illustrating a collection of extract-transform-load design patterns that have proven...

2017-01-16 (first published: )

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The Side Project

When I first started working as a technologist some 17 years ago, I was doing fairly low-level stuff: moving and...

2017-01-11 (first published: )

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PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Slides and Code

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Getting the Schema for Tables

What happens when I run this on SQL Server 2022 in the AdventureWorks2022 database? 

SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION (OBJECT_ID(N'Person.Person')) AS [Object Definition]; 
GO

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