DTLoggedExec 1.0 Stable Released!
After serveral years of development I’ve finally released the first non-beta version of DTLoggedExec! I’m now very confident that the product is stable and solid and has all the feature that are...
View ArticleSSIS Expression Tester Tool
Thanks to my friend's Doug blog I’ve found a very nice tool made by fellow MVP Darren Green which really helps to make SSIS develoepers life...
View ArticlePASS Summit 2010 – BI Workshop
PASS Summit 2010 Pre & Post conference are out! This year I’ll deliver the “Creating BI Solution from A to Z” seminar in which, as the title implies, attendees will see how to create a BI solution...
View ArticleDTLoggedExec 1.1.2008.4 Released!
Today I've relased the latest version of my DTExec replacement tool, DTLoggedExec.The main changes are the following:Used a new strategy for version numbers. Now it will follow the following pattern...
View ArticleAuto-Configuring SSIS Packages
SSIS Package Configurations are very useful to make packages flexible so that you can change objects properties at run-time and thus make the package configurable without having to open and edit it.In...
View ArticleSpotlight session at PASS 2011 - Temporal Snapshot Fact Table
I’m very happy to announce that my proposal for the Spotlight session I’ve been invited to deliver at PASS 2011 has been accepted!Temporal Snapshot Fact TableYou are designing a BI Solution and your...
View ArticleDTLoggedExec 1.1.2008.4 Service Pack 1 released
Today I’ve released the first Service Pack of DTLoggedExec (for those who doesn’t know what it is: DTLoggedExec is a DTExec replacement to run Integration Services...
View ArticleForcing “Custom Properties” of a Data Flow Transformation to support DTS...
Today I was using a 3rd Party Data Flow component that has several Custom Properties for which I need to change some of their values at runtime using a DTS Expression.To mimic the situation let’s use...
View ArticleSSIS Dashboard v0.4
Following the post on SSISDB script on Gist, I’ve been working on a HTML5 SSIS Dashboard, in order to have a nice looking, user friendly and, most of all, useful, SSIS Dashboard.Since this is a...
View ArticleSSIS Dashboard 0.5.2 and Live Demo Website
In the last days I’ve worked again on the SQL Server Integration Service Dashboard and I did some updates:Beta Added support for "*" wildcard in project names. Now you can filter a specific project...
View ArticleSSIS Dashboard v 0.6.1
Yesterday I’ve released the latest SSIS Dashboard update. There quite a lot of new features included that I found to very useful when you have a server full of packages and logs. Here the complete...
View ArticleUsing NLog With BIDS Helper to add logging to BIML Script executions
When using BIML within BIDS Helper, if your BIML Script files get complex it may be quite hard to debug BIML Script Execution in order to understand what’s going on behind the scenes.On Windows Server...
View ArticleSSISDB Monitoring Queries on GitHub
I’ve moved my SSISDB scripts from Gist to GitHub where I can maintain them more comfortably. So far, I’ve published 6 scripts:ssis-execution-status: Latest executed packages ssis-execution-breakdown:...
View ArticleSQL Konferenz 2015 Slide & Demo
Last week I spoke at the SQL Konferenz in Darmstad near Frankfurt. The conference was great and I meet a lot of good SQL friends over there. For anyone interested here you can find slide & demos of...
View ArticleSpeaking at SQL Saturday #613 in Redmond, WA
On April 15, 2017 I’ll be speaking at SQL Saturday in Redmond, WA. I’ve settled down after the recent changes, so it’s time to start to be an active part of the Microsoft Data Platform (former SQL...
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