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SSIS Package Parameters
With the latest release of DTLoggedExec, I’ve also added a nice functionality to make package runtime configuration a little easier, introducing the concept of “Package Parameters”.I’ve now updated the...
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SET IDENTITY_INSERT little bug(?)
While I was working on a package to incrementally load a dimension in the DWH I’m developing for a customer, I stumbled upon a tricky little bug (I think, I still have to have a response from MS) that...
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A week in Seattle
Tomorrow morning I’ll fly to Seattle for the usual PASS Community Summit. I’m really happy for the next week. Even if this period is really full of work and a week away means that at my return I’ll...
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DTLoggedExec 0.2.3.0 is coming….
After showing DTLoggedExec at SQL PASS I had quite a lot (good) of feedback, and so I decided to pospone the release I was ready to deploy to the public, to introduce new features and the default...
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DTLoggedExec 0.2.3.0 beta published!
Finally today I found the time to publish the latest release of my DTLoggedExec tool. This is quite big release, since I have introduced two new events, LogStartPackageLoading and LogEndPackageLoading,...
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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...
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SSIS 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...
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PASS 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...
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DTLoggedExec 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...
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Auto-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...
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Spotlight 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...
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DTLoggedExec 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...
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Forcing “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...
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SSIS 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...
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SSIS 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...
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SSIS 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...
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Using 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...
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SSISDB 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:...
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SQL 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...
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Speaking 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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