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• SSIS: Script component debugging comes to SQL Server Integration Services 2012

  One of the biggest complaints I see developers raising about SSIS since it was released in 2005 is that the only way to debug Script Components is the distinctly simplistic and old fashioned method of sticking up message boxes - there is no way to step Read More... Posted Friday, October 14, 2011 10:48 AM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: denali, script component, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis

• Confirmed: Juneau is in the next version of Visual Studio

  Its no great secret that Juneau, a collection of features in the forthcoming SQL Server codenamed Denali, will be in the next version of Visual Studio but its nice to have it confirmed all the same. I have installed the first publicly available drop of Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:32 PM by jamiet | 2 Comments Filed under: denali, juneau, sql server, SQL Server 2012, Visual Studio

• SSIS Reporting Pack v0.2 now available

  In December 2010 I announced in a blog post Introducing SSIS Reporting Pack for SQL Server code-named Denali that I planned to provide a series of reports that visualised information held in the SSIS Catalog in SQL Server Denali – I called these reports Read More... Posted Sunday, September 04, 2011 3:57 PM by jamiet | 2 Comments Filed under: denali, sql server, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis, SSIS Reporting Pack

• SSIS Logging in Denali

  In my blog post SSIS Server, Catalogs, Environments & Environment Variables in SSIS in Denali from November 2010 I alluded to forthcoming enhancements in the logging infrastructure when I said: One final note on logging. The fairly limited information Read More... Posted Saturday, July 16, 2011 5:16 PM by jamiet | 12 Comments Filed under: denali, sql server, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis, SSIS Catalog

• Debunking Kimball Effective Dates part 2 – Windowing Functions

  Reigniting the [SCDEndDate] debate In November 2009 I wrote a blog post entitled Debunking Kimball Effective Dates where I stated that I was against the Kimball-recommended practice of maintaining a StartDate & EndDate value for every record in a Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:31 PM by jamiet | 15 Comments Filed under: denali, Kimball, sql server, SQL Server 2012, t-sql, Windowing Functions

• SSIS enhancements in Denali CTP3

  The third Community Technology Preview (CTP3) of SQL Server code-named Denali is upon us and, although you would never guess from the official announcement , there is a whole raft of enhancements to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and in this blog Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:32 PM by jamiet | 13 Comments Filed under: denali, sql server, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis

• New SSIS features and enhancements in Denali – a webinar on 28th June in association with Pragmatic Works

  Tomorrow I shall be presenting a webinar entitled “New SSIS features and enhancements in Denali”. The webinar is being hosted by Pragmatic Works and you can sign up for it at Pragmatic Works webinars . The webinar will start at 1930BST and you can view Read More... Posted Monday, June 27, 2011 11:39 PM by jamiet | 4 Comments Filed under: denali, sql server, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis

• SQL Server Development Tools Advisory Program

  You may have heard that the next version of SQL Server (code-named Denali) will include a new tool (code-named Juneau) that is intended to bring a first-class development experience for T-SQL developers. Juneau is not yet available for us, the general Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:16 PM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: denali, juneau, sql server, SQL Server 2012

• Does SSIS in Denali solve the "relative paths" problem?

  Earlier today I stumbled upon a blog post that I wrote back in 2008 entitled Absolute and relative paths where I said: A common complaint about SSIS is that it does not allow the use of relative paths. The most useful application of this feature would Read More... Posted Friday, March 25, 2011 1:49 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: denali, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis

• Required Parameters [SSIS Denali]

  SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in its 2005 and 2008 incarnations expects you to set a property values within your package at runtime using Configurations. SSIS developers tend to have rather a lot of issues with SSIS configurations; in this blog Read More... Posted Monday, December 20, 2010 6:35 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: denali, Parameters, sql server, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis

• Introducing SSIS Reporting Pack for SQL Server code-named Denali

  In recent blog posts I have introduced the new SSIS Catalog that is forthcoming in SQL Server Code-named Denali: What's new in SSIS in Denali Introduction to SSIS Projects in Denali Parameters in SSIS In Denali SSIS Server, Catalogs, Environments and Read More... Posted Thursday, December 09, 2010 12:25 AM by jamiet | 13 Comments Filed under: denali, sql server, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis, SSIS Reporting Pack, video

• Synchronous execution of SSIS packages using T-SQL : Denali

  This post relates to SQL Server code-named Denali which at the time of writing is a pre-release version of the next version of SQL Server. It is also known as SQL11 and is expected to be released sometime in 2011 or 2012. The name given to it on release Read More... Posted Friday, November 19, 2010 8:25 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: denali, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis

• SSIS Server, Catalogs, Environments & Environment Variables in SSIS in Denali

  In the last few days I have written 3 blog posts covering some new features in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in the next version of SQL Server, code-named Denali: Introduction to SSIS Project in Denali Parameters in SSIS in Denali The new Execute Read More... Posted Saturday, November 13, 2010 7:50 PM by jamiet | 15 Comments Filed under: Catalogs, denali, Environments, sql server, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis

• The new Execute Package Task in SSIS in Denali

  In my blog post of 10th November Introduction to SSIS projects in Denali I spoke of how, in Denali, SSIS packages can collectively be distributed as a single unit called a Project. I want to start digging into the advantages that Projects bring and the Read More... Posted Friday, November 12, 2010 7:41 PM by jamiet | 8 Comments Filed under: denali, sql server, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis

• Parameters in SSIS in Denali

  In my last blog post Introduction to SSIS Projects in Denali I talked about the new Project deployment model that is coming in the next version of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS); working hand-in-hand with Projects is another new feature – Parameters. Read More... Posted Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:58 PM by jamiet | 17 Comments Filed under: denali, Parameters, sql server, SQL Server 2012, sql server integration services, ssis