BI Thoughts and Theories

Last week I presented “Do You Know the Data Flow?” to the Atlanta BI user group. The meeting was well attended, with about 40 people present. The group was great, with lots of good questions and comments. I finally got to meet in person several people in the SQL Server BI community who are local to Atlanta – Teo Lachev, who organizes the group,  Jen Underwood, and Julie and Audrey of DataChix fame. Aaron Nelson (@SQLvariant), Denny Cherry (@mrdenny), and Jorge Segarra (@SQLChicken) were also there.

This was my first public presentation of “Do You Know the Data Flow?”, which is always a little interesting. It’s a subject area I’m pretty comfortable with, though, and the presentation went smoothly. I got some great feedback on it (thanks, everyone), with several people telling me that they’d learned something new. For me, as a presenter, that’s great to hear, because I want people to feel like it was well worth their time to attend. Based on the feedback for this one, I’ll be putting it in my regular roster of presentations.

The slides from the presentation are located here.

This is overdue (the aforementioned blog problems have delayed a lot of posts), but I wanted to say thanks to the Raleigh, NC TriPASS User Group for letting me present on August 17th, 2010. I talked about “Processing Flat Files with SSIS” and had a great audience, with lots of questions and participation. It was a great experience, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.