I once heard someone say: if you use SSIS to do ETL, you are just not a good enough programmer in SQL. Needless to say I had some thoughts about that! We had a discussion about ETL and what tool is the most suited for that task. In the end it came down to the fact that
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Today, I attended the kickoff of the Biml Usergroup in the Netherlands. We had several hours of training from Scott Currie at a wonderful location (Impact Hub Amsterdam). Also some hints were dropped about the future of Biml and Varigence products. Here are my notes:
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Recently I saw this post from Davide Mauri (basically he announced his session "Reference Big Data Lambda Architecture in Azure" at SQL Nexus). Although I would've loved to attend SQL Nexus, I'm not able to do so this year 🙁 . The next best thing I could do was order and read Marz & Warren's "Big Data" (Manning) -
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