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August 2009 - Posts

• The curtain falls

  In October 2004 I was in Orlando airport returning home from the annual SQL PASS summit and I happened to pick up a copy of MIT’s Technology Review magazine in which the cover story was an interview with Tim Berners-Lee called “Internet 2.0”. One subject Read More... Posted 29 August 2009 23:27 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments

• Reporting Services FixedColumnHeaders property bug [Note to self]

  [Every time I come across this problem I seem to spend a good five minutes scanning the interwebs trying to find the answer - maybe if I write it here it'll be easier to find in the future!] SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 has a bug concerning the Read More... Posted 24 August 2009 09:31 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, sqL server 2008, reporting services, sqL server reporting services, ssrs

• Editing Configuration files : SSIS Nugget

  Its been a long-g-g-g-g time since I did a SSIS-related post so here’s a little ditty that I picked up while reviewing some internal stuff today. Editing SSIS configuration (i.e. .dtsConfig) files isn’t particularly easy. Most people I see who try to Read More... Posted 04 August 2009 16:51 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server, SSIS, configurations, Nugget

• Peering into the SQL Azure documentation

  Some documentation for SQL Azure has been released on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee336279.aspx and upon reading there are some interesting nuggets of information that are worth calling out. Under a section headed “Key benefits of Read More... Posted 04 August 2009 10:54 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: azure, sharding, SQL Azure