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Last weekend I started my IFR (instrument) flight training, as well as the checkout process in the club's Cessna 182. Since I have less then 100 hours total time, I need 10 hours of dual instruction in the 182 before I can take it out on my own. I figured since it was equipped with a Garmin 430 it would be a bad plane to start my instrument training in, and, get something extra out of that 10 hours of dual instruction.

On Sunday July 30th, Jenny and I made the trek up to Oshkosh to attend our first ever Airventure.

Here’s some definitions of common Data Warehousing terminology:

I recently gave my first technical presentation at the local Madison, WI Professional Association for SQL Server User Group (MADPASS).  It was a 10 minute ‘lightening’ presentation.  I selected the topic ‘SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 Lookup Functions’.

If you are new to SSIS as I am, you have likely experienced confusion regarding the SSIS metadata types.  I often run into metadata mismatches between column data types in SQL Server and the data type in SSIS.  Fortunately there is a simple way to determine the data types associated to columns in SSIS.  In addition, I have found a few resources online that have helped me resolve issues with data type mismatches.