The latest articles on DEV Community by Matt Cushing (@sqlkohai). https://dev.to/sqlkohai https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F96924%2Fa502c28a-e931-4172-a08d-de51bc13caee.jpg https://dev.to/sqlkohai en Matt Cushing Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:39:12 +0000 https://dev.to/sqlkohai/using-twitter-as-a-development-tool-5a49 https://dev.to/sqlkohai/using-twitter-as-a-development-tool-5a49 <p>I was taking over from a consultant and realized that we had a lot of data that we were collecting, but weren't putting it to good use. I also saw that we had a lot of manual processes that we could eliminate if we uses SSIS properly to grab data.</p> <p>So I started teaching myself SSRS and SSIS and lo and behold, I had a mountain of data. Now what??</p> <p>I started my twitter account in 2011(<a href="https://twitter.com/SQLKohai">https://twitter.com/SQLKohai</a>) and after learning that #ssrshelp and #ssishelp tags in my tweets led me to some quick solutions I found myself 'talking' to many people who either had similar issues, or had found solutions to something along the lines of what I was looking for.</p> <p>Fast forward 7 years, and I'm getting to meet some of them, I'm reading the textbooks that a bunch of them are writing, and I'm preparing to speak at a User Group event in January.</p> <p>Give me a shout on Twitter and I'll introduce you to the 'SQL Family' sometime. For me, finding a group of likeminded, open people, was really refreshing.</p> ssrs ssis datawarehouse