Monthly Archives: December 2008

Formatting Numbers in SSRS (and SSAS)

This is a little off of my usual SSIS posts, but I ran across an interesting item. It’s probably well-known to people who work with format strings on a regular basis. However, I’ve used them for a while, and just … Continue reading

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New Features for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

Today I was creating a new project in Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition, and needed to import a SQL Server 2008 DB.  I went looking for a SQL Server 2008 template for Visual Studio… instead, I found the Microsoft® … Continue reading

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SQL Load Generator Tool

A few weeks ago I spoke at PASS on using the Resource Governor in SQL Server 2008.  For my demo, I created a little application that could fire off multiple queries against SQL Server to simulate different users/applications.  This tool… … Continue reading

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SSIS Event Handlers

There was a question recently by a fellow MVP, who was wondering if the event handlers in SSIS were fired synchronously or asynchronously. The answer (which I double-checked with Matt Masson) is that they are synchronous. When events are fired … Continue reading

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