I want to refine the process, standards and lifecycle for largescale SSIS development. It's rarely done right and was the most difficult part of recent projects I've worked on.

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It's amazing how people manage their data. More than half of the companies I work with have never tried a restore, even of their primary application. Often things are...

Besides bug fixes, service packs can contain functional and performance improvements, as well as completely new functions. I look forward to them...but I also don't have to apply them....

You make some interesting points Steve. As a consultant I take those architecture principles to my clients, and often it's the only way to maintain control of a big...

Marketing, packaging, competition and cost drives the way Chipotle, Subway and Microsoft put together their products. The user is only one factor in the equation. When we develop...

The breadth and depth of today's IT world causes a lot of people to be doing work for which they are barely qualified. I'm a BI consultant and I...

Often we are mistaken about how a new technology will actually be deployed and utilized, and the cloud is probably no different. Many comments I've seen about this paradigm...