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Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:27:57 +0000

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Comment on The DBA’s addiction by Wolly

Wolly — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:21:58 +0000

Moss would be proud of you.

Comment on Developing SSIS solutions on OS X : Part1 – Introduction by eric

eric — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:42:02 +0000

@jamiet has tweeted about my post re “Microsoft is absolutely dominating the ETL space with SSIS …”, can I back this up. I am sure there are plenty of vendors out there that will have solid arguments against that assertion, but here are my reasons why I think this is probably true and if not quite, then why it is very likely to become so.

I attended Ralph Kimballs “ETL Architecture in Depth” course in April 2011. There were 60 attendees and during a show of hands about ETL platform usage, over half said they were using or planned to use Microsoft SSIS.

As I mentioned in my previous “Luxury” (http://www.ericjlawson.co.uk/2012/04/13/luxury-pronounced-look-shoe-ree/) blog about the SQL Server community, about how the talent pool is growing. This is a growth market. Yes it might be hard to recruit at the moment, but if I was at Uni or thinking about retraining, I would give serious consideration to learning SSIS, before any other ETL tool suite.

Finally, I think SSIS lowers the entry level for genuine data integration and analysis, opening up business intelligence opportunities. I dont know the list prices for ETL solutions such as Informatica, Oracle Data Integrator, BusinessObjects Data Integrator, DataStage etc., but I do know these have generally been the domain of big IT shops. I have heard anecdotal stories about one of these tools; that it is much more expensive to develop with than compared to SSIS.

By licensing SSIS free with the database engine, Microsoft make their product very compelling. This means that small businesses that are growing and beginning to embark upon “data centric / business intelligence” projects (as distinct from core IT systems and solutions), they are very likely using SQL Server and will probably move onto SSIS.

Only time will tell, but my money is on SSIS.

Comment on Luxury (pronounced look-shoe-ree) by eric

eric — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:58:36 +0000

Thank you very much for the correction Wolly. I am more focused on getting my technical opinion correct but historical comedy facts are equally important. I will heed your advice. I am updating the core article too.

Comment on Luxury (pronounced look-shoe-ree) by Wolly

Wolly — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:15:24 +0000

Monty Python sketch ‘Four Yorkshiremen’ not Cooke and Moore is origin of Look-shoe-ree. ‘I had to get up 4 hour before going to bed, lick the road clean…..’ Anyway an interesting piece on your journey through the maze of historic SQL development. But remember “Google before you Tweet is the new think before you speak.”

Wolly

Comment on ETL origins by Jamie Thomson

Jamie Thomson — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:03:58 +0000

I’m looking forward to hearing more of this Eric. Subscribed.