September is another busy month of speaking events for me and I thought I’d share them with you so maybe I can see you at one of the events. Date: 09/08/2012 Group: SQL Saturday #167 Columbus, GA Topic: Adapting Your ETL Solution to use SSIS 2012 With all the great new features added to SSIS in SQL Server 2012 it is important to understand how they can make your development life easier. This session will not only highlight what is new in SSIS but also show how your existing solutions can b...
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Last Wednesday at Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG) we held our annual Speaker Idol event. Read more about what the events all about here . The event was a success and the speakers all got some great feedback from our panel of experienced speakers ( Eric Wisdahl , Jorge Segarra , and Mike Davis ). First up was Hari Reddy on a presentation on Wait Stats. His presentation was very through and easy to follow. Next was John Kauffman on a demonstration of script he created to audit delete st...
The Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG) has always encouraged new talent to be added to the pool of local speakers. That’s why tomorrow we will be hosting an annual event called Speaker Idol (I know the name isn’t very original don’t kill me!), which is for anyone that’s interested in speaking at events like SQL Saturday but need a safe place to get started. The group of speakers we have participating are: John Kauffman Hari Reddy Ryan Cox TJ Brown Anthony Coleman ...
Somehow I missed this gem that’s been around for quite a while so I thought I would share it in case anyone else has yet to see it. The Forward Engineer add-in is a really great open source project that allows Visio database diagrams you create to easily be converted to T-SQL that will create physical objects in a SQL Server database for you. If you’ve ever used Visio for visualizing existing databases into a diagram then you’ve likely used the standard Reverse Engineer option....