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 Logging

If you were to poll data professionals on which tasks they enjoy working on the most, ETL logging would probably...

2016-03-22 (first published: )

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Technical Dogma

Humans are creatures of habit, and I suspect that engineering/technical types are even more so. We find something that works...

2016-01-04

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The Discomfort Zone

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I read a book entitled The Phoenix Project. This book has been in my Kindle library...

2015-12-04 (first published: )

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Rolling Back a Broken Release

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A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth

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Presenting with Visual Studio Code

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Lots of FKs

In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?

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