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Automatic Restart of SSIS packages after Failover or Failure

SSIS makes it possible to minimize work lost by starting after the last successfully executed control flow task upon restarting a failed package. From there, one challenge many seek to overcome is automatically restarting that package at that point without any manual intervention. This would make it possible for your SSIS packages to be running, your cluster to failover, and your SSIS packages to restart and complete without you having to respond to the failover and restart them.

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2010-09-03

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DMVs for Query Plan Metadata

Before you can tackle any performance issues with a working database, you need to know which queries to work on first: The ones that are taking the most time in total, and which are the most expensive in terms of cache, CPU and disk. Although SQL Server Management Studio can help, it isn't long before you need an armoury of DMVs to provide you the statistics to find the culprits.

2010-09-02

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What Every DBA Ought to Know About SQL Server Cursors (and Their Alternatives)

Cursors provide a means of processing through a set of records row-by-row. However, many companies have a policy against using cursors in their SQL Server standards. This article examines the problem with cursors and alternatives to using them.

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2010-09-01

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Streaming Profiler Data Through StreamInsight

Using the Trace Management objects API it is possible to capture the events happening on SQL Server or indeed Analysis Services. I got to thinking that this would be a good thing to stream out in real time in StreamInsight and do some analysis “In Flight”. So here is a short video of me doing just that.

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2010-08-31

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Writing an SSBS App When the Initiator and Target are on the Same Database

SQL Server Service Broker (SSBS), introduced with SQL Server 2005 and enhanced in SQL Server 2008, allows you to write queuing/message based applications within the database itself. This article discusses creating an application in which Initiator and Target both are in the same database.

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2010-08-30

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SQL Schema Comparison with Visual Studio 2010

we normally do development on the development box; then during the build preparation we compare the development database with the QA/UAT/Production database to identify differences and generate schema objects for synchronization or incremental deployment scripts. How we can compare schema objects between databases and generate synchronization or incremental deployment scripts?

2010-08-27

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Technical Article

A deadlock was detected while trying to lock variables in SSIS

Error: 0xC001405C at SQL Log Status: A deadlock was detected while trying to lock variables "User::RowCount" for read/write access. A lock cannot be acquired after 16 attempts. The locks timed out. Have you ever considered variable locking when building your SSIS packages? I expect many people haven’t just because most of the time you never see an error like the one above. I’ll try and explain a few key concepts about variable locking and hopefully you never will see that error

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2010-08-26

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