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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ETL Modularity

Imagine for a moment that you’ve built a software thing. In fact, we’ll call it Thing. You put a lot...

2016-07-18 (first published: )

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Bad Data Can Kill

Bad data can kill. Literally. I’m not talking about the impact of bad data on the bottom line of business,...

2016-05-31 (first published: )

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Refocus

Three years ago, I left the ranks of full-time employment to become an independent consultant. At the same time, I...

2016-05-04

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ETL Auditing

It happens far too often: Once an ETL process has been tested and executes successfully, there are no further checks...

2016-03-29 (first published: )

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A Fun Computer Quote

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