Archive for April, 2011

The Vaguest Error Message I Ever Saw in Integration Services

There was this one time when I was working on a project and we were trying to load a datawarehouse. I came in one morning to find a team member staring at a failed SSIS package with this error message at a Data Flow Task, specifically coming from the query in the ole db source: [...]

Five Places to Document Before You Win the Lottery

When a project starts to go sideways and you’re cursing Naive Past You who signed off on the “aggressive” time estimates as you feed quarters into the vending machine in hopes that powdered donuts and honey buns won’t give you a heart attack before you hit the deadline, the last thing you want to talk [...]

Eleven Words – Meme Monday

“Remaining content, cautious no more… Microsoft BI with Key2 Consulting, forevermore…” (And yes, bonus points for rhyming, too!) Also tagging fellow Key2 Tweeps: @TiffanyHefner @DataChix1 @DataChix2 @NileshGala Meme Monday is brought to you by @SQLRockstar, with more information to be found here.

Atlanta BI Chapter of PASS meeting March 28, 2011

Thanks for attending! Here are the slides and code. Download the zip which is called AtlantaSIG. –Julie