Upgrading maps in BI Dev Studio projects
Folks that are on early betas of products (especially private betas) are not surprised when projects are not updatable between beta versions. These limits are usually listed in the release notes,...
View ArticleDACPAC and pre-SQL Server 2008 R2 versions
I thought it was curious that in a DACPAC you can specify required version and edition of SQL Server as a deployment option. But DAC (Data-Tier Applications) is a new feature of SQL Server 2008 R2 and...
View ArticleFilestreams, Remote Blog Storage, and SQL Server 2008 R2
As long as I'm blogging about filestreams... Folks always want to know if the filestream information can be stored on a remote share. They look kind of disappointed when they hear that the filestream...
View ArticleA SQL Server 2008 R2 change for Service Broker
There's another change to the SQL Server database engine in SQL Server 2008 R2. This concerns poison-message handling behavior in Service Broker applications. Service broker's messaging is always...
View ArticleStreamInsight 1.0 RTM: Installation and Samples
StreamInsight V1.0 RTM'd a few weeks ago. Although I worked with it, looking especially at the infrastructure and programming models, I just installed the RTM version a few days ago. One thing I...
View ArticleRecompiling the StreamInsight CTP3 samples for 1.0 - Part 1
This posting is a journey through StreamInsight 1.0 APIs, undertaking by porting the CTP3 samples. The first look at the errors produced by recompiling the CTP3 examples is the realization that the...
View ArticleRecompiling the StreamInsight CTP3 samples for 1.0 - Part 2
This posting is a journey through StreamInsight 1.0 APIs, undertaking by porting the CTP3 samples. Part 2. So let's update the SimulatedDataInputFactory provider, now. The problem seems to be the...
View ArticleRecompiling the StreamInsight CTP3 samples for 1.0 - Part 3
This posting is a journey through StreamInsight 1.0 APIs, undertaking by porting the CTP3 samples. Part 3. In the StreamInsight CTPs, there existed three methods to code applications. My original post...
View ArticleGetting error 2337 installing SQL Server on a VPC?
I usually have a number of different versions of SQL Server around, installed on Virtual PCs. Usually works fine. So I was a bit surprised when installing the RTM version of SQL Server 2008 R2 from the...
View ArticleSQL Server Security Best Practices whitepaper update is live
I've recently completed an update to the SQL Server 2005 Security Best Practices whitepaper. It's available on the security and compliance website under whitepapers or the direct link is here ....
View ArticleLooking at Data-Tier Applications (DAC)? Look at version 1.1
About a week or so ago, I read a request for information about a SQL Server database management feature known as Data-Tier Applications, abbreviated as DAC (apparently someone realized that the DTA...
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