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Bloggers (like my pal Buck Woody on his Carpe Datum blog ) are mentioning the SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack . The so-called Feature Pack is a Web page that lists many individual downloads related to SQL Server 2008. Here are some of the features of the Feature Pack, especially as they relate to Integration...
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In my third installment on Excel issues , I proposed writing out Excel XML rather than binary Excel files as one way to avoid both the issues of the Excel driver, and the risks of Excel automation. Recently I came across a DTS custom task that I wrote in Visual Basic.NET in 2004 that does exactly that...
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There's a dialog box of DTS application-wide settings that disappeared from SQL Server 2005 and 2008. It used to live on the context (right-click) menu of the DTS node in SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager. One day in a moment of spare time I set about to re-create it for use on a SQL Server 2005...
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[REVISED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SAT 5/24/08, MON 5/27/08, MON 10/13/08] It may seem ironic to start a new blog by talking about old stuff. But we all loved DTS in our youth, and it’s been a popular subject in my Inbox lately. Run-time support for DTS The good news for DTS users is that DTS...