En el caso de que tengamos un error que sospechemos que pueda tener su origen en SQL Server o simplemente queramos conocer las operaciones que CRM 4.0 está realizando sobre SQL Server, podemos hacer uso de SQL Profiler. SQL Profiler es una herramienta...

Le site de Netcraft présente une statistique intéressante des serveurs qui n'ont pas été redémarrés depuis très longtemps. Il faut, sans doute, saluer le travail réalisé par certains clients dont, le fabricant...

La question m'a été posée et il semble que la réponse n'était pas donnée d'avance : peut-on utiliser des contrôleurs de domaine en lecture seule (RODC pour Read Only Domain Controller) comme serveurs de sites primaires...

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La première version beta 1 de System Center Service Manager (ex Service Desk) vient d'être publiée sur Microsoft Connect. Pour proposer votre inscription au programme : https://connect.microsoft.com/SelfNomination.aspx?ProgramID=2733&pageType=1&SiteID=446...

I seem to have spent a large proportion of my time this month worrying about health. OK, so a week of that was spent in the US where, every time I turned on the TV, it scared me to death to see all the adverts for drugs to cure the incredible range of...

  If you need to resize a Visio page to fit the drawing contents, you may notice some surprising results – your shapes will shift positions. In this post I’ll explain what is observed and how you can work-around an oddity in Visio’s behavior. This...

This week I’m reporting from Tokyo and Yokohama.  It is the second time in as many years that I’ve been invited to speak at an industry event here in Japan.  Yesterday afternoon, it was my honor to provide a keynote for the 28th Joint Conference...

The cascading lookup pattern uses two lookup transforms with different cache modes . A common use of this pattern is when your data flow is inserting new rows into your reference table. The first lookup in the chain is set to Full cache mode. Since it...

This is a pretty basic pattern where we use a lookup to determine whether we need to update and existing row, or insert a new one. The lookup checks if a key or set of values exists. If the key isn't found, the row is sent to an OLEDB Destination for...

This pattern is used when you have transformation logic which relies on a key which might not already exist. If the lookup fails to find the key, a new key is generated with a script task so it can be used later on downstream. Optionally, the key could...

From the Lookup presentation I put together for the MS BI conference in October, here is a series of posts which describe different patterns for using the Lookup transform. Key Generation Upsert Cascading Case Insensitive Incremental Cache Update Range...

Using the Cache Connection Manager (CCM) is a new option for the Lookup transform in SSIS 2008. The CCM provides an alternative to doing lookups against a database table using an OLEDB connection. This post will suggest some best practices for using the...

Girl Geek Dinners are organised all over the world and are great fun. One in Auckland and one in Tauranga this Thursday. Help us with managing numbers, register now!...

Today we will be sharing principles, practices, patterns and tools announced at PDC in October. Come and join us to start your applications journey to the cloud and beyond. Presented by Microsoft Developer Advisor Mike Zeff and Microsoft Architect Mark...

If you've installed the Silverlight Toolkit after Visual Studio 2008, you may have noticed that pressing F1 in the VS Code Editor or in XAML View can take you someplace unexpected. You'll see this with types and members that are "shared" between...

Over at the Live Framework blog Kevin has given details of the update for the tech preview. Version numbers for this release Live Framework Developer Sandbox : 0.9.3519.1 Live Framework Client: 0.9.3519.1 Live Framework SDK: 0.9.3519.1 and the key updates...

Wednesday this week we officially launched Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 at Convergence EMEA - what a relief. We have been working hard on this release for a long time and although you always know what you would have made better when you launch a product,...

A while ago the System Center Virtual Machine Manager team showed me a chart of their cmdlets.  It was an Excel spreadsheet which had the VERBs as rows and the NOUNs as columns.  I thought that this was a wonderful way to look at the cmdlets. ...

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There are a great many products on the market these days that provide information about a set of projects.  The idea is to let the stakeholders know how well their money is being spent.  Information Technology departments often get criticized...

Nyligen hemkommen frÃ¥n Malmö och Öredev kan jag bara konstatera att det var en mycket lyckad konferens som verkligen gjorde skäl för sin slogan “Sharing knowledgeâ€. Arrangörerna hade lyckats ta dit en imponerande mängd bra talare. Själv hann jag se sessioner...

The roadmap for Moonlight includes support for Microsoft's Media Pack 1.0 for playing back video and audio.in a release scheduled for the next few weeks. And support for Silverlight 2 features planned for March. November/s Moonlight 1.0 Beta includes:...

Patrick Sirr , one of the key developers in our team started his own blog. If you want to learn about automating the project system using DTE, please check it out. His first three articles are covering: Importing multiple scripts using DTE Schema Compare...

In this blog I’ll lead you through the various parameters for the “Data.NewDataComparison†command available in the General Distribution Release (GDR) for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. This command launches the Visual Studio Data Compare...