You can download the CTP here:  https://connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver?wa=wsignin1.0. 

You can also see a webcast by David Campbel here:  http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032341071&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US.

Enjoy!

Reed

If you are like me and you disabled the UAC prompts when you installed Vista, and then you try to add a network printer (in my case the printer was connected to an XP desktop) you get a "Print Monitor Unknown" error.  The way to get around this is to re-enable the UAC, then you will get a prompt for the drivers, and then they install.  Viola!

Hope this helps!

Reed

No problem, that’s what Full Text Indexes do.  However, I didn’t want to just search for one static word, or a list of static words.  I wanted to search for a list of keywords that I was storing in a column in a different table.

I could not find any way to dynamically pass a to a Full Text Query results from another query, which would have been really easy.   Instead, I had to create a list, enclosed in double quotes (“”) and separated by commas (,) from my table containing my keyword list.  I made this list into a variable and then passed that variable to the “CONTAINS” query I wrote.  Viola!  It worked. 

This is the sample code I used:

DECLARE @TermList varchar(100)

SELECT @TermList = COALESCE(@TermList + '", ', '') + '"' +

 term

FROM dbo.term

select * from dbo.calls where

FREETEXT ([Subject],@TermList)

Where @TermList  is the variable I created to hold my list of terms, the “term” column in dbo.term is the column containing all my keywords, and the dbo.calls table has the “subject” column that I want to look in to find matches.

Hope this helps somebody!

Reed

 -Reed

October PSSUG Meeting

October 11th, 2006

MicroEndeavors

8001 Lansdowne Avenue

Upper Darby, PA  19082

Directions: http://www.microendeavors.com/directions.htm

Welcome the crisp fall days of October with our Speaker Contest winners! Instead of one long keynote, we will have four short user

presentations. Our speaker contest winners are

            Bart Hirst -- Practical SQL Server 2000 to 2005 Migration Tips

            Mike Metcalfe -- SQL Server Funeral Services

            Mike Welsh -- SQL Server 2005 Performance Monitor New Features

Vince Napoli will also present one of his Tips and Tricks Series:  Looking at SQL Server 2005 TSQL enhancements -- using the OUTPUT clause to make your life easier.

Our meeting is sponsored by CA XOSoft. Josh Mazgelis, a senior Systems Engineer at CA XOSoft, will present a session titled Disaster Recovery / High Availability for SQL.

Abstract: How do the new SQL Server 2005 high-availability features factor into your business continuity planning?

This session will provide a real-world perspective on the improvements and to understand where you may still need protection.

Does your SQL environment require a bandwidth-optimized, full compression, high-availability solution? View walkthrough demo of

CA XOsoft's SQL high-availability product with asynchronous automatic failover and failback capabilities. Also featured will be our

disaster recovery testing capabilities that perform fully automated, scheduled tests that validate the replica server environment.

CA XOsoft's rewind technology (built in CDP), which provides the ability to quickly roll back data to any point in time, accelerating

time to recovery with minimal data loss, will be shown as well.

There is no charge for the meeting, but you must register at www.pssug.org.

Dress code: Geek chic.

Upcoming meetings:

            November 8th. Sponsor: PCTI.  Speaker: Chuck Urwiler – “Data Dude” (aka Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals). Venue TBD.

            December 13th. Speaker: Joe Toscano. Sponsor and venue TBD.

If you just have the SQL Server management tools on your desktop (Management Studio and Business Intelligence Development Studio aka. BIDS) then you can build a package in BIDS and run it there, but you can’t deploy to your local machine and execute there.  You need SSIS installed on a machine to execute a package.

That doesn’t mean you can’t call SSIS packages from a job server that doesn’t have SQL Server on it, however.

In order to do this you need to put your SSIS package into a job on the SQL Server box.  You don't have to schedule the job, you just need to create a job step that will execute your package.

Once that is done, we can call that job from any machine.  We don't need the SSIS components in order to do this.

The code I tested goes as follows.  I created a query to kick off my job and saved it in text file called query.txt - the query looks like this:

USE MSDB

GO

EXEC sp_start_job @job_name = 'TestPlan', @server_name = 'Pashllfixit\SS2K5'

GO

Then I wrote a little command to call osql.exe on the SQL Server and execute the command.  I can run this from any cmd.exe on any server: 

"\\pashllfixit\c$\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\osql.exe" -E -Spashllfixit\ss2k5 -iC:\query.txt

And it will execute my SSIS package and we are done.

This will allow you to use SSIS without installing any SQL Server components on your job server. 

Hope this helps!

-Reed

-Reed

The way it work is you run a stored procedure (it’s in the whitepaper) and it finds out what SQL Server is waiting on, which gives you a feel for where you need to focus your efforts to tune SQL Server.

I highly recommend reading this paper and using it to help if you are having performance problems with SQL Server 2000.

For an awesome example of how this would work, check out the SQLCAT blog here:  http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2005/09/05/461199.aspx.

You can find the script itself in this presentation:  http://www.sqldev.net/events.htm#SQL_Connections_12-15_October_2003,_Palm_Springs_CA_ ( it’s this one:  SPR201 - 4 - Performance Tuning - Using Waits & Queues.zip)

And the table to help you determine what to do is here:  http://www.sqlmag.com/Files/09/40925/Webtable_01.doc

The whole thing joined together is available from SQL Server Magazine, but you need a subscription to access it.

-Reed

Being able to have a config file for your packages is one of the huge improvements in SSIS over DTS.  However, it’s a little hidden and the Books Online are absolutely no help here, which is unusual because they are pretty good on most stuff. 

If you want to add an XML config file you need to go to the top toolbar and choose SSIS -> Package Configurations… and then choose Add to create a new config file.  If it’s not already selected you’ll have to choose “Enable Package Configurations” first.

Then you can choose what you want to add to the configurations – variables and connections are the two most popular ones.  Then it will create and XML file in the destination you specify with the configurations you’ve chosen.  You can edit them in a text file or have multiple versions that you can swap out as you choose, or specify at runtime which config file to use.

For a good walkthrough, you can visit:  http://www.sqlis.com/default.aspx?26.

Reed

First, and this is the most important part,  you must enable a service on the Windows Server 2003 box.   The service is WebClient – enable it, then set it to autostart.

Now, Open up SharePoint and Navigate to your Document Library – I am using the MOSS 2007 VPC so mine is: http://moss.litwareinc.com/SiteDirectory/EDTDocs/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx.

Now you have 2 choices, you can map a drive (  net use * "\\moss.litwareinc.com\SiteDirectory\EDTDocs\Shared Documents" will do the trick for that.)  Or you can address it as a UNC Path like this:   \\moss.litwareinc.com\SiteDirectory\EDTDocs\Shared Documents.

Now, when you have a file destination in SSIS you can make it your mapped drive or the UNC path.

I hope this helps someone; it took me days to get this right.