Came across Connected Information Security Group's Blog. There are 2 new tools to help diagnose code for security vulnerabilities; CAT.NET and Anti-XSS both in early review releases. I am more interested in testing CAT.NET for testing within Visual Studio...

Matt Mason has a data flow package example that looks pretty complete. Gotta check it out. http://blogs.msdn.com/mattm/archive/2009/01/02/api-sample-data-conversion.aspx

Sometimes I just want to run a SSIS package without creating a job in SQL Server job. Dangerous?? Well not really just sometimes, especially in production, unwise. Nonetheless here is my raw example for sharing with others. Make sure you add the reference...

The PSS SQL Server Engineers have SQL Server 2008 Installation explanation. http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2008/08/11/sql-server-2008-visual-studio-2008-sp1-and-net-framework-3-5-sp1-explained.aspx

Microsoft Press Release on SQL Server 2008 I am very excited about SQL Server 2008!! The product provides a lot of new features (i.e. spatial and filestream) as well many performance improvements. Want to learn more? Check out these resources: SQL Server...