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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)

Getting feedback / progress from batches and stored procedures

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:42:00 GMT

Ever wanted to get feedback and interim results like a progress from a stored procedure ? Well, not that easy as the results such as PRINT information is send after the batch has been completed. If you want to get information back from your batches you...(read more)

Consuming SSIS package data in Reporting Services (and using Web Services in addition) Part 1

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:06:30 GMT

There are several scenarios where you want to extract data from different data sources and combine them within a report. Unfortunately if you have structure like a Table or Tablix, you can only bind the objects data source to only one dataset....(read more)

Checking Failover after setting up a Database Mirroring

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:40:00 GMT

If you use database mirroring, the essence is that you use an additional connection property which is called “Failover partner” to make the client aware that it can try to connect to another server. If the principal went down or you lost connection to...(read more)

Changing the Login / Authentication Mode programmtically via SMO

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:14:00 GMT

Here are some instructions how to change the Login / authentication mode via Code. It just uses plain SMO capabilites: After this you will have to make sure that the Service is restarted, if you want this to do via SMO look at the following sample. You...(read more)

Obfuscation is not a security feature – Spoofing the APP_NAME

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT

SQL Server 2005 introduced an interesting and long demanded feature, the LOGON triggers. First only defined via server event triggers, it has become more and more popular in same scenarios to prevent users with a certain machine environment accessing...(read more)