SSIS Design Patterns

Upcoming Class: Building Better SSIS Packages in Pensacola

I’ll be teaching my popular day-long course, Building Better SSIS Packages, on Thursday, June 1 in Pensacola, Florida. This class is being delivered in conjunction with SQL Saturday Pensacola. Registration is open to the public, and early-bird pricing is in effect until early May. Let me know if you have any questions about this class. I look forward to seeing…


SSIS Parent-Child Architecture in Catalog Deployment Mode

This is the third in a series of posts about SSIS parent-child architecture.  You can find the index page here. In my previous posts on SSIS parent-child package architecture, I described the benefits of the parent-child package design pattern and demonstrated the implementation of such a pattern in package deployment mode.  In this post, I will demonstrate the parent-child pattern…


SSIS Parent-Child Architecture in Package Deployment Mode

In my first post in this series, I covered the essentials of SSIS parent-child design patterns, including discussing a number of advantages for using such patterns.  In this post, I’m going to demonstrate how to build parent-child structures using package deployment mode. SSIS Parent-Child Architecture in Package Deployment Mode Package deployment mode is available (though not the default behavior) in…


“It’s Alive” – SSIS Design Patterns

I’m happy to announce that the book I’ve been working on for the past two years, SSIS Design Patterns, is complete and has been released for sale as of today. I got the unique privilege to work alongside SSIS rock stars Andy Leonard, Jessica Moss, Matt Masson, and Michelle Ufford to scribe what will hopefully be a must-have book for…