English Blog Posts
DTLoggedExec 1.1.2008.4 SP2 released!
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
I’ve released couple of hours ago the SP2 of my DTLoggedExec tool. For those who don’t know it, it’s a DTEXEC replacement, useful to execute SSIS and having logging provided right from the engine and not from the package itself. More info can be found here: http://dtloggedexec.codeplex.com/ This SP2 release add an important feature to the CSV Log Provider. It's now possible to store a personalized label into each log, in order to make it easy to identify or group logs. Let's say, for exa...
SYS2 scripts updated (December 2012)
Monday, December 12, 2011
I’ve updated my SYS2 scripts: Added a new script to see how much buffer cache memory is used by each database Updated the sys2.stats script in order to have only one row per statistics Updated the sys2.query_stats script to use the sys.dm_exec_plan_attributes dmv to get better information on which database was used by the cached plans As usual they are available from CodePlex: http://sys2dmvs.codeplex.com/ Enjoy!
IBM DB2 and the “'DbProviderFactories' section can only appear once per config” error
Thursday, November 24, 2011
IBM doesn’t like MS. That’s a fact. And that’s why you can get your machine.config file (!!!) corrupted if you try to install IBM DB2 data providers on your server machine. If at some point, after having installed IBM DB2 data providers your SSIS packages or SSAS cubes or SSRS Reports starts to complain that 'DbProviderFactories' section can only appear once per config you may want to check into you machine.config, located in the %runtime install path%\Config http://msdn.microsoft.com/en...
Execute a SSIS package in Sync or Async mode from SQL Server 2012
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Today I had to schedule a package stored in the shiny new SSIS Catalog store that can be enabled with SQL Server 2012. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh479588(v=SQL.110).aspx) Once your packages are stored here, they will be executed using the new stored procedures created for this purpose. This is the script that will get executed if you try to execute your packages right from management studio or through a SQL Server Agent job, will be similar to the following: Declare @executio...
DAX editor for SQL Server
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
One of the major criticism to DAX is the lack of a decent editor and more in general of a dedicated IDE, like the one we have for T-SQL or MDX. Well, this is no more true. On Codeplex a very interesting an promising Visual Studio 2010 extension has been released by the beginning of November 2011: http://daxeditor.codeplex.com/ Intellisense, Syntax Highlighting and all the typical features offered by Visual Studio are available also for DAX. Right now you have to download the source code a...
