Welcome to EMC Consulting Blogs

Browse by Tags

• Azure Services Platform
• Checkpoints
• cloud computing
• Dataflow Task
• Demo
• gadget
• katmai
• Live Framework
• Live Mesh
• Live Operating Environment
• Mesh
• Nugget
• Resource Scripts
• REST
• RESTful
• sidebar
• SQL Monitor Gadget
• SQL Server
• sqL server 2008
• SQL Server Integration Services
• SSIS
• Vista
• Web Services
• windows

• An audio visual tour of the Mesh developer experience : Live Framework

  Over the past few weeks there has been a concerted effort within Conchango to increase the amount of knowledge sharing that occurs within the company which was all prompted by some discussions that took place at one of our very popular community days Read More... Posted 25 November 2008 21:49 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: REST, video, Live Mesh, cloud computing, Mesh, RESTful, Azure Services Platform, Live Framework, Live Operating Environment

• Introduction to Resource Scripts : Live Framework

  The Live Framework (aka LiveFX), part of the Azure Services Platform, has been available for almost two weeks now. In that time one of the least talked about features within LiveFX has been Resource Scripts however (perhaps because of my SQL Server background) Read More... Posted 10 November 2008 18:39 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: REST, video, Live Mesh, cloud computing, Mesh, RESTful, Azure Services Platform, Live Framework, Live Operating Environment, Resource Scripts

• SSIS: Understanding event propagation

  I have spent the last couple of days helping a client over the initial hurdles of SSIS familiarisation. I enjoy doing gigs like this because it highlights to me what difficulties people have when they first encounter SSIS and is a good reminder of the Read More... Posted 02 February 2008 04:33 by jamie.thomson | 6 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, video

• SSIS: The Normaliser Component

  Scene Setting Its a common scenario when doing data integration that one has to process datasets containing redundant data. In many cases this is when data is received in flat files and all data is put into a single file for ease of transport. Perhaps Read More... Posted 07 September 2007 20:16 by jamie.thomson | 9 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, Dataflow Task, video

• Announcing SQL Server Monitor Gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar

  It gives me great pleasure to announce that as of today, Conchango are making available version 1 of our SQL Server Monitor Gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar. The gadget does exactly what it says on the tin; it monitors a specified SQL Server database Read More... Posted 09 August 2007 06:10 by jamie.thomson | 24 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Vista, windows, gadget, sidebar, SQL Monitor Gadget, video

• SSIS: Consuming web services in SSIS 2008

  SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2008 is bringing with it new capabilities. One of the biggest new features is the new scripting engine. Previously Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSA) was used as the scripting engine but that has now been Read More... Posted 19 June 2007 21:50 by jamie.thomson | 17 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, katmai, Web Services, sqL server 2008, video

• SSIS Nugget: Ignore a checkpoint

  Checkpoint files are very useful mechanisms for recovering failed packages and I have talked about them quite a bit before, however, they do have one or two limitations. One thing that people typically want to do is always execute a particular task regardless Read More... Posted 11 May 2007 19:40 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SSIS, Checkpoints, Demo, video, Nugget Attachment(s): IgnoreCheckpointsDemo.zip