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Matthew Roche on SQLDownUnder.com

SQL Server MVP Matthew Roche has been interviewed by Greg Low (another MVP) on SQLDownUnder.com. You can download the interview, on mp3, from here. Its a great conversation if you're interested in SQL Server Integration Services because that is Matthew's real area of expertise. He talks about best practices and that's something that ALWAYS interests me. SSIS is a very powerful, feature-rich platform but the flipside of that is that you can accomplish things in many different ways and often the method you choose isn't the best one hence best practices are incredibly important.

I was interested in one comment, that was actually made by Greg, where it was suggested that having annotations that are based on expressions would be really useful. I wholeheartedly agree and back in January 2006 I raised a connect submission asking for exactly this. Unfortunately it has been closed as "Closed (Won't fix)" so maybe its time to raise another one asking for the same. Or perhaps one of you could do that and then let me know.

I'd also like to thank Matthew for the very kind words he used when mentioning my list of SSIS Best Practices.

-Jamie

P.S. Incidentally I've been listening to the interview on my new Zune 2 which was made easy by the ability to subscribe to Greg's podcast feed and then wirelessly sync the device. Very cool indeed.

Published 23 November 2007 07:53 by jamie.thomson

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Sam Loud said:

Hi Jamie;

Bit OT, but I'm interested in what you say about your Zune. I'm bang into podcasts, and listen to them all the time on my Samsung flash player. I'm thinking about getting one of these Zune 2 devices because of their 'podcast support' but I don't really understand exactly what it means. I'm a bit confused with the whole subscribing and synching wirelessly thing. Can you explain how it works?

November 23, 2007 08:47
 

Andy said:

Greg's feed also works in RSS Bandit which can download the files to a location of your choice and can create a playlist for Media Player (or Itunes).

November 23, 2007 14:56
 

jamie.thomson said:

Hi Sam,

Email me at jamie[at]jamie-thomsonDOTnet and I'll tell you all about it.

-Jamie

November 23, 2007 16:18
 

Matthew Roche said:

I've apparently fallen far behind on my blog reading these days - thanks for the kind words!

I must submit one correction, however - I'm not actually an MVP. I'm and MCT, etc., but not (not yet, anyhow - I never give up hope) an MVP...

December 20, 2007 14:38

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