Monthly Archives: November 2007

The November CTP for SQL Server 2008 Is Out!

The download link is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3BF4C5CA-B905-4EBC-8901-1D4C1D1DA884&displaylang=en Evidently there have been some issues getting it on the Connect site, so they are hosting it in Microsoft’s Download Center for now.

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BIDSHelper 1.2 Is Out

BIDSHelper 1.2 is now available at CodePlex. The new version has a number of SSIS specific features, like expression and configuration highlighting, a tool window that lists all the expressions in the package, and a Package Smart Diff tool. Darren … Continue reading

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Changing Destination Tables With the OLE DB Destination

The OLE DB Destination supports using a variable to get the name of the target table. This allows you to switch the destination table dynamically, but there is a caveat. The columns in each table that you will use must … Continue reading

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Running Password Protected Packages

A recent post on the forums was asking about running packages programmatically. The poster’s package was password protected, and when running the package, they were receiving a message that one of the connection managers was failing to connect. The code … Continue reading

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SSIS Performance Webcast for the Charlotte SQL Server User Group

I’ll be doing a web cast for the Charlotte SQL Server User Group, our local PASS chapter, on SSIS Performance Tuning on Nov. 28, 2007 at 12:00 EST. From the abstract: “This presentation will cover the various aspects of performance … Continue reading

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Dealing with Unicode and ASCII Text Files

A recent post on the MSDN forums brought up an interesting problem. The poster was attempting to process a folder of files, all of which had the same format, but some were encoded as ASCII (ANSI, DT_STR, or varchar, if … Continue reading

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Checking for the Existence of a File

The File System Task in SSIS doesn’t support checking to see if a file exists. You can work around this easily with a script task. Create a new script task and add a Imports statement referencing the System.IO namespace to … Continue reading

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