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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 →

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 →

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 →

They announced the SQL Heroes contest winners at the PASS Summit keynote today. I’m very happy to say that both BIDSHelper and ssisUnit were in the top 5! BIDSHelper had a perfect score of 55 (the only perfect score), based … Continue reading →

After I created the Batch Destination for my presentation at the MS BI Conference, I was talking with Matt Masson, who let me know that they’d been working on a MERGE Destination sample component, and would hopefully be releasing it … Continue reading →

Todd McDermid (a frequent poster on the MSDN SSIS forums, and creator of the Kimball SCD component) and I have started a new project on CodePlex along with Todd McDermid, the SSIS Community Tasks and Components (ssisCTC) project. This project … Continue reading →

David Reed, who manages the SQL Server community samples on CodePlex, has been running a SQL Heroes contest. It’s for open source applications that help improve the SQL Server experience. You can read more about it on the SQL Heroes … Continue reading →

Only certain cells are considered “writeable” in a PPS Plan Excel form. A writeable region is a region where the user can enter data. Here is a checklist of reasons why a region that you expect to be writeable is … Continue reading →

A colleague came to me recently with a problem.  She was implementing a Dashboard in PPS M&A, and she was seeing some unexpected dimension names.  The behavior was specifically affecting her when she was creating a report using an Analytic … Continue reading →

I’ve spent the past 15 months, off and on, working as the technical lead on a performance management project using PerformancePoint Server.  The project was to create a SharePoint Portal where users could view the performance of a school system.  … Continue reading →