Tim Mitchell

Tim Mitchell is a business intelligence consultant, author, trainer, and Microsoft Data Platform MVP with over fifteen years of data architecture experience. He is the founder and principal of Tyleris Data Solutions.

Tim has spoken at international and local events including the SQL PASS Summit, SQLBits, SQL Connections, along with dozens of tech fests, code camps, and SQL Saturday events. He is author of the book The SSIS Catalog, coauthor of the book SSIS Design Patterns, and is a contributing author on MVP Deep Dives 2.

You can visit his website and blog at TimMitchell.net or follow him on Twitter at @Tim_Mitchell.

Interests: SQL Server, Data Warehousing, ETL, .NET development

Twitter: @tim_mitchell
Website: https://www.TimMitchell.net

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Why Make Up Test Data? Snag Some Government Data

by Tim Mitchell

Tim Mitchell

… and by government data, I mean the mountain of data recently made available by the G-Men on Data.gov. This site...

2009-07-28

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Social Networking in the SQL Server Community

by Tim Mitchell

SQLServerCentral.com

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Like many SQL Server (and other technology) people, I utilize several social networking vehicles to stay in touch with others in the SQL community. Some of those who don’t use Facebook and Twitter (among others) have expressed skepticism of the real value of social networking. Does it work? Does it provide any value beyond entertainment? Can it actually help your career? I believe the answer to all of these queries is Yes.

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2009-07-24

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Social Networking in the SQL Server Community

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Tim Mitchell

Like many SQL Server (and other technology) people, I utilize several social networking vehicles to stay in touch with others...

2009-07-20

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SQL Saturday Dallas

by Tim Mitchell

Tim Mitchell

We are in the early stages of planning a SQL Saturday event in the Dallas area for January or February...

2009-07-19

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Being The Best vs. Being Affordable

by Tim Mitchell

SQLServerCentral.com

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I read a post on Brent Ozar’s blog last week that discussed employers’ expectations when hiring new team members. Though the story was specific to database professionals, the same principles apply to almost any hiring situation. The moral of Brent’s story...

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2009-07-16

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Being The Best vs. Being Affordable

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I read a post on Brent Ozar’s blog last week that discussed employers’ expectations when hiring new team members. Though...

2009-07-13

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The Netbook

by Tim Mitchell

Tim Mitchell

I like my main laptop. It’s big and wide and bright, with lots of power and all of the bells...

2009-07-11

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Transaction Rollbacks with Identity Values

by Tim Mitchell

SQLServerCentral.com

Blogs

Have you ever noticed unexpected gaps in sequences in IDENTITY columns? Even though you’ve got transactions set up for your inserts and a no-deletion policy, you find that there are missing values in what should be an unbroken sequence of numbers. The problem could be partially related to transaction rollbacks.