Developer hearted / Relational minded

An “secret” SSIS XML Destination Provider you might not found yet

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:16:14 GMT

(Sample code included at the end of the post) The initiator for this post was Dan Atkins who wanted to create a feed from relational data to consume it directly from a created gadget. Where can I find that in the toolbox ? First of all, you won’t...(read more)

SSIS as a data source needed ? Watch out for configuration traps

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:27:57 GMT

Someone pinged me according the article I wrote about SSIS as a data source in Reporting Services. In general this is easy to implement and configure. One problem though occurs if you already had SQL Server 2005 on the machine first and updated...(read more)

SQLIOSIMParser 0.3.3.0 is available

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:56:47 GMT

After skipping some internal version the 0.3.3.0 is available now , these are the new features: Version 0.3.1.0 <Internal Bugfixing> Version 0.3.3.0 -Moved settings to a separate settings page and save them for later use (Suggested by me) -Added...(read more)

SQLIOSimParser 0.3.1.0 is available

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:45:25 GMT

These are the new functionalities comparing the 0.2.3.1 version: -Added n-m mapping for different test iterations (Suggestion to Jimmy) -Included output to CSV (Suggestion to Jimmy) -Being able to specify a delimiter for the CSV output (Suggestion...(read more)

SQL Server Reporting Services Logging & Caching project released on Codeplex

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:36:52 GMT

The first version (0.3.0.0) of a small project I did was published to Codeplex ( http://rsparamlogcache.codeplex.com/ ). It enables you to log and cache user parameter values for further usage and statistics. Here is short extract from the project...(read more)

Jump on the Express Trace if you can – SQL Server Express server side tracing

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:25:00 GMT

Running SQL Server Traces on SQL Server Express SQL Server Express does not come with a SQL Server Profiler GUI. (Period) Though can still use SQL Server Profiler tools from other editions to connect to the SQL Server Express edition. (But make sure that...(read more)

New Cumulative Update for CU4 for SQL Server 2008 SP1

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:08:18 GMT

Head up, the new CU is ready ! This one is CU (Cumulative Update) 4 for SQL Server 2008 SP1 (means that you will need to have SP1 installed in order to install the update) See the information of the release services team here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlreleaseservices/archive/2009/09/22/cumulative-update-4-for-sql-server-2008-sp1.aspx...(read more)

Project corruption after upgrade VSTSDB & Unit tests

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:33:33 GMT

As it was hard to find the cause of this error and the answer, I wanted to share some searchable information on the internet for that. The following problem occurs while doing an upgrade of “older” VSDB project to the new GDR releases. As you have seen,...(read more)

Basta Herbst 2009 in Mainz

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:49:07 GMT

Thank for all participants attending my sessions in Mainz. As promised, here are the slide decks and demos I used during my presentations. If you have any question to this are other SQL Server related topics, feel free to ping me. I am looking forward...(read more)

SQLDays in Rosenheim Herbst 2009

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:59:47 GMT

Need more spare time ? Use SQLIOSimParser to interpret your IO results !

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:14:45 GMT

My colleague Marvelous Jimmy ( JimmyMay ) and myself did a small project to parse and interpret the results of the testing tool SQLIO. It produces ready-to-interpret reports and reusable results in Excel and will save you (as of Jimmy) much time...(read more)

Problems opening your project files in Visual Studio ?

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:59:20 GMT

if you encounter the problem as follows: <PathToyourDBFile> cannot be opened because its project type (.dbproj) is not supported by this version of the application. To open it, please use a version that supports this type of project. ..then...(read more)

Cannot find the source of a SQL Server error ?

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:33:24 GMT

Ever had an error in your application and you couldn't find the source of all evil and where the error is thrown at the end ? Well, SQL Server profiler does a great job about that, but you really need to understand which events to filter for and how to...(read more)

(Log) resistance is futile – how to drop log files

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:22:00 GMT

At the beginning everyone is trying to tune the database by creating additional database files, spreading the data across file groups, adding additional log files for the database… But wait a minute, is there a performance benefit from having more than...(read more)

Database Programming: Did You Know IN Can Do This?

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:50:08 GMT

Ward Pond , one of the marvelous SQL geeks within Microsoft published a nice thing wich we had a discussion internally on concerning the capabilities of the IN operator: http://blogs.technet.com/wardpond/archive/2009/09/04/database-programming-did-you-know-in-can-do-this.aspx...(read more)