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Hello all! Its been a good year overall, despite the fact that I was laid off from Land America due to the economic conditions in the real estate market and the ripple effect it has had on companies like Land America. I was laid off two weeks ago, along...
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I use settings file left and right - not everything I do requires DI - and despite what some would have you believe, not everything you do requires it either. A particular annoyance of mine is seeing '0%' code coverage (or very low numbers) in Visual...
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This is a relatively short post about raising an error in T-SQL and having SSIS not recognize that error. If you have an SSIS package that calls a SQL Task and that T-SQL for whatever reason ends up raising an error the SSIS package that called the T-SQL...
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Introduction I'm a big fan of intellectual integrity. It appeals to my engineer nature. I'm also an amateur student of all things social, which covers philosophy and politics. So I'm really energized about the Web 2.0 social networking I see all around...
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I'm a little late getting something posted for Blog Action Day . This year's focus is on poverty. I thought I'd share a story. There was this guy who grew up in a rural area in the US. Rural in the US is not necessarily poor. And poor in the US is wealthy...
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One week and counting to Richmond Code Camp. Im excited.This really going to be a good one. Great great speakers, brand new venue, great presentations, giveaways and lots of cool people to hang around with. In case you haven't registered, here is the...
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I am honored to be selected to present at the 2008 PASS Summit ! I'm presenting two sessions: Test-Driven Development For Database Professionals and SSIS Scripting . I've been working on the presentations recently and realize there will be a few minutes...
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The Innsbrook .Net User Group is having their monthly meeting Sept 24th. The presentation will commence at 6:30pm so please try to arrive between 6:00 and 6:30. Food will be provided. I will be speaking on Interface Based Design. PLease visit out new...
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When? October 4th, 2008 Where? J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College - Parham Road Campus Please take time to register: ClickToAttend Please take time to take a quick survey: Survey link here More Info: http://www.richmondcodecamp.org See ya there!...
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This is the second part in a very short series covering dtexec and how to see exactly what package it is executing. Last time we covered how to see what dtexec was doing using PowerShell and WMI . This was great for checking all the different packages...
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dtexec.exe is the program that is executed to run dtsx packages in SSIS 2005. This executable is called if you call a Integration Services package through SQL Server Agent or through the command line directly. The problem I am trying to solve today is...
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Introduction A few months back I received an email from a nice lady who was beginning to work with SSIS. She was trying to use SSIS to automate metadata collection in her enterprise and she had made a good start in the package she attached to the email....
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My latest SSIS 101 article - SSIS 101: Object Variables, ResultSets, and Foreach Loop Containers - is live at SQL Server Central today! Enjoy! :{> Andy...
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Susan presents SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. Awesome introduction about installation, configuration, and security! Thanks Susan! Tickets! Get your swag tickets! Can you see the clock cycles? Well? Can you? I can. Who let this guy in? I thought there...
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16 Aug 2008 Today we're holding the Heroes Happen Here Event in Richmond, Virginia! Susan Lennon is presenting on SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS). Kevin Hazzard is presenting on Visual Studio 2008 SP1 changes. Steve Fibich is talking about SQL...
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Now this is cool! The hotel in Baltimore where I'm staying has a six foot VGA patch cord in the desk drawer and a patch panel mounted on the side of the LCD television stand facing the desk - all to allow me to connect my laptop to the 32" LCD! I gotta...
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Introduction If you work with Microsoft Business Intelliegnce technology there was a huge announcement this week. Yes yes, there was the new release of SQL Server 2008, but that wasn't the big news. The big news is: The Visionary Has Left The Building...
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Happy Birthday Boof! I'm a little late blogging this - Riley's first birthday was last Sunday! Here we are on the big day: We wore our spiffy new orange-ish colored shirts and khaki pants to church Sunday morning to celebrate. Why orange-ish? Not sure....
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I'm downloading it now....
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I was asked to put the Richmond Code Camp Powerpoint Presentation up as people wanted the PowerPoint slide deck and the sample code as well. Well, as they say better late than never... I really want to deliver a series that will help developers that are...
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I was surprised last night. Andrew Duthie - aka TBDDEOTP (The Best Damn Developer Evangelist On The Planet) - called me a few weeks back and said "Let's have dinner, and bring your family. In hindsight, I should've suspected something but I didn't. We...
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I have heard a rumor going around that real SharePoint developers only write code utillizing the SharePoint API. I have heard a rumor going around that real SharePoint developers never utilize the set of SharePoint web services available to them. To this...
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Introduction Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta is available. Installation is not straightforward - there is at least one "gotcha." Full SP documentation can be found here . Procedure Download Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta . I am installing...
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Introduction SQL Server 2008 RC0 has been out for a while. You can download it here . This post is not a detailed examination of the setup options. There are much better articles and posts out there if you want more information. This post represents one...
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Hello all! I want to take a few moments to tell you about some really great things happening at INETA. I was talking to David Silverlight the other day about some of the cool programs that INETA is making available to the developer community, namely the...
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