Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

I just sat in on an online SSIS course by PragmaticWorks. It was an open format, so we could ask questions and go down any path we wanted with the discussions. Since the course is offered by a BI ...