When: October 15, 2013 8:45 am - 4:45 pm Charlotte, NC Where: Wake Forest University Charlotte Center 200 North College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 What: Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) automates your BI patterns and eliminates the manual repetition that consumes most of your time. Come see why BI professionals ...

Yesterday I gave my session to the fine folks in Nottingham, UK. Below is a zip file containing the deck and samples: Bertrand_BitsXI_BadHabits.zip

In his article Healthcare's Big Problem With Little Data, author Dan Munro raises salient points about the state of health-related data. Electronic Health Records (EHR) were promoted as the end-all-be-all solution for the industry – a standardization that, I suppose, many thought would organically and naturally occur, stabilize, and be ...

Join SQL Server MVP Tim Mitchell (blog | @Tim_Mitchell) and I as we demonstrate and discuss the many uses of scripting in SQL Server 2012 Integration Services 8 May 2013 at 11:00 AM EDT! In this demo-packed session, two co-authors of the book SSIS Design Patterns share their experience using the Script Task and Script Component to accomplish ...

Kent Bradshaw and I are pleased to announce another free webinar: Medical Data Integration with SSIS 2012, Part 2 - Providers and Drugs. Register today! The recording of the first part of this series is available here.  :{>

I am honored to present Creating a Custom SSIS Task this Saturday – 13 Apr 2013 – at SQL Saturday 189 – Costa Rica! Espero que se unan a mí! :{>

PASS Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Virtual Chapter Co-ChairWeb: http://bi.sqlpass.org | Email: PASSDWBIVC@sqlpass.org | Twitter: @PASSBIVC  Friday February 22nd 11am EST(US)Hacking the SSIS 2012 CatalogSpeaker: Andy ...

I will be unveiling a shiny new presentation – Hacking the SSIS 2012 Catalog – at the SQL Server Innovators Guild in Greenville South Carolina 5 Feb 2013! The location of the meeting is: ECPI, Greenville, SC 1001 Keys Dr Greenville, SC 29615 If you will be in the area that evening and if you read this blog, stop by and introduce ...

The recording of the presentation Using Enterprise Data Integration Dashboards is now available! Enjoy! :{>

Join Kent Bradshaw and I as we present Using Enterprise Data Integration Dashboards Tuesday 11 Dec 2012 at 10:00 AM ET! If data is the life of the modern organization, data integration is the heart of an enterprise. Data circulation is vital. Data integration dashboards provide enterprise ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) teams near-real-time ...