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• A potted SSIS history via Connect

  Yesterday I received a notification that one of my submissions to http://connect.microsoft.com had received a comment. Nothing unusual about that, I receive those sorts of emails every day, on this occasion however the comment was actually worth reading. Read More... Posted Thursday, April 07, 2011 4:12 PM by jamiet | 4 Comments Filed under: Connect, sql server integration services, ssis

• Have SSIS' differing type systems ever caused you problems?

  One thing that has always infuriated me about SSIS is the fact that every package has three different type systems; to give you an idea of what I am talking about consider the following: The SSIS dataflow's type system is made up of types called DT_* Read More... Posted Monday, March 14, 2011 6:46 PM by jamiet | 34 Comments Filed under: sql server, Connect, sql server integration services, ssis, Microsoft

• Newly closed Connect items auger well for SSIS in Denali

  Todd Mcdermid spoke recently on his blog post Integration Services vNext Coming Soon about how some recently closed Connect items had encouraged him as to the future of SSIS. Also, Matt Masson from the SSIS team has written a similarly encouraging blog Read More... Posted Friday, September 10, 2010 1:56 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: sql server, Connect, sql server integration services, ssis, denali, SQL Server 2012

• Be wary of using UNC paths in SSIS packages

  I have recently discovered what I believe to be a bug in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2008 and am taking the opportunity herein to warn about it so that nobody else gets stung by it. The bug concerns the use of Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) Read More... Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:15 PM by jamiet | 11 Comments Filed under: sql server, Connect, sql server integration services, ssis

• RSS feed for SQL Server Connect feedback

  Have you heard of Microsoft Connect ? It is a Microsoft website dedicated to soliciting feedback about bugs and feature suggestions for their products and SQL Server has a dedicated space on that website at https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ Read More... Posted Friday, February 19, 2010 5:13 PM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: sql server, Connect