May, 2008

Douglas Laudenschlager, one of our excellent documentation writers, has started a blog on his site, Dougbert.com . He has a number of great posts so far , and he's only been at it for a month. Frankly, the quality of his blog is making me feel bad about...

Matthew recently did an interview for RunAs radio where he gives a really good overview of SSIS, DTS, and ETL in general. It's great if you're just getting started with SSIS, or need to sell someone else on the idea of using it!

We've modified the OLEDB_NOPROVIDER error to return the name of the provider we failed to find. This will appear in the RC0 release of SQL 2008. SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDB_NOPROVIDER_ERROR.  The requested OLE DB provider SQLNCLI.1 is not registered...

We tried to make our package upgrade as seamless as possible, but one problem we've seen people running into is with their connection strings. As I've previously noted, the provider name for SQL Native Client was changed in 2008 from SQLNCLI to SQLNCLI10...

Now that things are winding down for SQL Server 2008, we've had some time to focus on samples. I'm especially interested in publishing sample extensions (tasks, data flow components, etc) out on codeplex, but we're also working on SSIS package samples...