Developer hearted / Relational minded : SQL Server 2008

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)

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)

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)

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)

List reports of a Reporting Services instance via rs.exe script

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:48:06 GMT

Simple and easy, no coding or direct access needed to the report server database, simply put the following script in a script file and exectue it via rs.exe e.g. rs.exe –S http://localhost/ReportServer –i TheScriptFileHere.rss Put the following lines...(read more)

CU6 for SQL Server 2008 / CU3 SQL Server 2008 SP 1 are out

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:13:09 GMT

Get the latest and greatest CU package for SQL Server 2008 (RTM) –> CU6: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971490/en-us or for SQL Server 2008 SP1 –> CU3: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971491/en-us -Jens...(read more)

Light weight SQL Server procedure auditing without using SQL Server auditing

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:50:00 GMT

A week ago a colleague asked for different options to do audit stored procedure calls. With his allowance I will post the question here. “The applications used at the customer site all access these databases using stored procedures ( only , as far as...(read more)

The “magic” about trustable relationships with NULL and NOT IN

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:52:27 GMT

As a follow-up to my former post “ Why you shouldn't´trust the friendship of NULL and the (NOT) IN predicate ” I asked Paul Randal during our SQL Server Master training about the possible internal reason that the results can vary if you have NULL...(read more)

Consuming SSIS package data in Reporting Services (and using Web Services in addition) Part 2

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:39:00 GMT

(Sample project attached to the blog entry !) Having stated the need for getting data from SSIS packages in Reporting Service in my last post (Part 1) , we now want to concentrate how to achieve the implementation. SQL Server Integration Services...(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)

A long (but not missed) friend revisited, prefixing stored procedures with SP_

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:59:56 GMT

Coming as a simple sample with PBM (creating a policy with a condition that procedure names shouldn't´t start with SP_) and getting an interesting question in one of my classes, I wanted to revisit the question about the yet in some places existing naming...(read more)

Perception vs. reality, how to keep your database schema changes of different environments aligned with VSTSDB and VSDBCMD.EXE Part 1

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:43:23 GMT

Yesterday at the PASS conference I met an former colleague and he asked me about a particular challenge applying changes to the production database from Visual Studio Team System Database Edition. As he didn’t know about the new features of the deployment...(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)