Well you can certainly edit an SSIS 2005 package in VS2008, if you have BIDS 2008 (SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition).

You can open the 2005 pakcage and edit it....

Steve Jones - Editor (6/16/2009)

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Barry, interesting point. What if you can't "attend" unless you get the freebie?

I guess you will have to decline in that case to avoid the legal...

Sweet! Thanks, Steve. 🙂

The problem is that this statement from the letter is contradicted by this statement from the contract:

Speakers agree...

GilaMonster (6/16/2009)

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RBarryYoung (6/16/2009)

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The contract definitely says that we have to do everything, BUT it also says that we get free admission, which we know that only the real speakers do....

Oh, now I get it. LOOP join, yeah, with row locking that'll prevent any table escalations, and MAXDOP 1 makes a deadlock virtually impossible.

Nice work guys.

Sounds like a good idea, Lowell. 🙂

Paul White (6/16/2009)

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Heh. There was I about to post that the assembly needs to be signed, when I...

GilaMonster (6/16/2009)

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As I mentioned, when one of mine was alternate 2 years ago, I didn't hear another word from PASS after that. No request for slides, no reminders of deadlines,...

Folks, please. Do NOT feed the Tee-Ar-Oh-El-El!

If you are unfamiliar with how trolls work, then look it up on Wikipedia.

Its whole goal is to stoke its delusional sense of...

Grant Fritchey (6/15/2009)

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GilaMonster (6/15/2009)

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I honestly wouldn't bother, unless you want to use it for UG presentations. The chance of it changing from alternate to accepted is slim. I mean, how...

Paul White (6/15/2009)

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Barry,

The script I posted takes the row-lock approach and sacrifices some measure of efficiency for concurrency. I may have missed the point with it, but we'll see...

Glad I could help.

If you are running your exe from a mapped drive letter, try accessing it with a URN instead.

If that doesn't work, then see if it works when you copy it...

I don't beleive there is anything like this from Microsoft. You might want to search around to see if anyone has implemented this for themselves.