Just ordered my tickets to my first ever pre-con, and it’s for a SQSaturday being hosted by my chapter. I’m excited to attend John Welch’s Data Warehousing with SSIS Deep Dive on September 16, 2011 (BTW, tickets are still available).
Why this precon at this time? Well, this year, conference funds are tight for me. With my recent wedding, I’m really limited on both time and personal funds to attend a lot of conferences, so my own personal learning experiences are being restricted. It was an easy sell to my employer to fund a $100 pre-con.
Second, my job is shifting, and I realized I needed to pick up some skills to finally make the transition. I have a lot of exposure to ETL processes, but not so much SSIS. Combine that with the fact that I haven’t done a lot of BI (most of our ETL is clickstream analysis), and there’s a big old gap in my data knowledge.
Anyway, much longer post to follow on what I’ve been up to; just wanted to drop a quick note to say where I’m going to be before SQLSaturday 89.
