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• Business Intelligence for my blog from Adcenter Analytics

  In early August I signed-up with Adcenter Analytics , a free service that can provide information about visitors to my blog. Its also a direct compete with Google Analytics. I’d completely forgotten about it until yesterday when I was reminded about the Read More... Posted 30 October 2008 09:16 by jamie.thomson | 9 Comments Filed under: Conchango, Business Intelligence, blog, Adcenter Analytics, analytics

• SSDS demo code now on Codeplex

  Last Friday at Conchango’s latest community day (something we have every 6 weeks where all of our 250 consultants down tools and get together back at base) I ran a cloud computing demo where I showed off some of the capabilities of SQL Server Data Services Read More... Posted 29 July 2008 11:02 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Conchango, SSDS, SQL Server Data Services, cloud computing, SDS, SQL Data Services

• We are (still) hiring!

  Periodically I put a call out on this blog asking for people to send us their CVs and in the past its proved to be a good avenue for getting talented people through the doors so I'm doing it again here. You may have heard about Conchango's recent purchase Read More... Posted 14 May 2008 18:01 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: Conchango

• Conchango blogging on the upturn

  An email from Paul Dawson went around one of Conchango's internal distribution lists a few weeks ago with a call to action for people to contribute more to our blog site. Apparently our tag cloud wasn't fully representative of the things that we are good Read More... Posted 15 March 2008 04:04 by jamie.thomson | 8 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle, Conchango

• SSIS: Deprecated features in SQL Server Integration Services 2005

  Here's a useful page to keep an eye on: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms403408.aspx . It lists the current features within SSIS that will be disappearing in future versions and the strongest message I take from it is that you should upgrade Read More... Posted 09 March 2007 20:00 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server, Conchango, SSIS, Scripting

• Flynny is blogging

  Most of what you read on the Conchango blogsite will be technical in nature, we are first and foremost a technical consultancy after all, but there have been efforts to get more people from the business-vertical focused people in our company blogging Read More... Posted 23 October 2006 16:25 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: Conchango

• SSIS: Rank Transform

  With the advent of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft provided three new T-SQL windowing functions that will turn out to be highly beneficial to T-SQL developers. They are: ROW_NUMBER (Which I have talked about previously here ) RANK DENSE_RANK It occurred to Read More... Posted 12 September 2006 13:36 by jamie.thomson | 6 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Integration Services, Conchango, SSIS, Dataflow Task Attachment(s): RankTransform.zip

• Data Architect required in California

  Apologies if you have already read this on Christian's blog ! Conchango are about to begin a major project in California - it is actually a continuation of some work that I have recently been involved with in Aberdeen, Scotland. One small problem we are Read More... Posted 20 June 2006 09:14 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle, Conchango

• SSIS developers required!!

  We at Conchango are always on the hunt for talented people to join our ever growing ranks of technical consultants. For a taster of the current open positions see the sidebar on my blog . This post isn't about positions in general though, we have a more Read More... Posted 24 May 2006 14:00 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, Conchango, SSIS

• Conchango "clear leaders of the pack" in design and branding

  Conchango have long been known as a company that delivers technical solutions; what alot of people don't know is that we also involve ourselves heavily in the area of design and branding. Well, that could be about to change because Conchango have recently Read More... Posted 20 May 2006 18:28 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: Conchango