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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 Read More... Posted 23 November 2007 07:53 by jamie.thomson | 4 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, best practice

• SSIS: Team Development Experiences

  Recently on this blog I mentioned in passing that I have been working for some considerable time now on a project with multiple SSIS developers. A few people asked me if I could give a rundown of how we went about this, any experiences of team development Read More... Posted 06 August 2007 01:52 by jamie.thomson | 9 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, Team System, Team Foundation Server, best practice

• SSIS: Package Naming Conventions

  In this blog's history I have suggested naming conventions for tasks and components and just lately I have been experimenting with a naming convention for packages as well. I've been pretty pleased with it and today a colleague commented on its Read More... Posted 08 November 2006 21:55 by jamie.thomson | 17 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, best practice

• SSIS: Common folder structure

  For reasons that I'll save until another post , I always deploy my packages as files rather than to SQL Server. In doing this I have derived a folder structure that I use in order to keep all my deployed packages and other files in the same place: Read More... Posted 05 January 2006 15:19 by jamie.thomson | 37 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, raw files, best practice, configurations, Checkpoints, template, indirect configurations Attachment(s): PackageToUseCommonFolderStructure.zip

• SSIS: Suggested Best Practices and naming conventions

  I thought it would be worth publishing a list of guidelines that I see as SSIS development best practices. These are my own opinions and are based upon my experience of using SSIS over the past 18 months. I am not saying you should take them as gospel Read More... Posted 05 January 2006 12:13 by jamie.thomson | 53 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, raw files, ole db source adapter, connection manager, Microsoft, Dataflow Task, Scripting, Expressions, best practice, configurations, Variables, Checkpoints, template

• SSIS: Using dynamic SQL in an OLE DB Source component

  I reckon that one of the most commonly used components in SSIS is the OLE DB Source component . This is the one that you use to pick up data from an OLE DB compliant data source (e.g. a database) in order to use that data in your pipeline. This is done Read More... Posted 09 December 2005 09:49 by jamie.thomson | 54 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, ole db source adapter, best practice

• SSIS: Using variables to store expressions

  I have extolled the virtues of the expression language in SSIS more times than I care to remember and quite frankly regular readers of this blog must be fed up of me banging on about them. Well I make no excuse for it - property expressions dramatically Read More... Posted 05 December 2005 09:20 by jamie.thomson | 18 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, Expressions, best practice