BI Thoughts and Theories

Recently, a user on the MSDN forums asked how to check an Agent job from SSIS to see if it’s completed. Once it had completed, additional steps need to be performed, for example, archiving flat files. However, this couldn’t be done till the job completed. Read More...

I’m going to be doing 3 sessions at the upcoming SSWUG BI Virtual Conference . If you are interested in getting an introduction to SQL Data Services (SDS), I’ll be doing an introductory session on it, and then covering how it can be used from SSIS and Read More...

If you develop in Visual Studio using C# or VB, then you are probably familiar with code snippets. They are little chunks of code that you can insert into your application and save you some typing. For example, if you are writing a C# application, and Read More...