I’ve released couple of hours ago the SP2 of my DTLoggedExec tool. For those who don’t know it, it’s a DTEXEC replacement, useful to execute SSIS and having logging provided right from the engine and not from the package itself. More info can be found here: http://dtloggedexec.codeplex.com/ This SP2 release add an important feature to the CSV ...

Today I’ve released the first Service Pack of DTLoggedExec (for those who doesn’t know what it is: DTLoggedExec is a DTExec replacement to run Integration Services packages): http://dtloggedexec.codeplex.com This Service Pack fixes some little problems with the .bat and .sql files that comes with DTLoggedExec. All the fixes were already ...

SSIS Package Configurations are very useful to make packages flexible so that you can change objects properties at run-time and thus make the package configurable without having to open and edit it. In a complex scenario where you have dozen of packages (even in in the smallest BI project I worked on I had 50 packages), each package may have its ...

Today I've relased the latest version of my DTExec replacement tool, DTLoggedExec. The main changes are the following: Used a new strategy for version numbers. Now it will follow the following pattern Major.Minor.TargetSQLServerVersion.Revision Added support for Auto Configurations Fixed a bug that reported incorrect number of errors ...

After serveral years of development I’ve finally released the first non-beta version of DTLoggedExec! I’m now very confident that the product is stable and solid and has all the feature that are important to have (at least for me). DTLoggedExec 1.0 http://dtloggedexec.codeplex.com/releases/view/44689 Here’s the release notes: FIRST ...

Finally today I found the time to publish the latest release of my DTLoggedExec tool. This is quite big release, since I have introduced two new events, LogStartPackageLoading and LogEndPackageLoading, that allows a Log Provider to intercept event related to package loading and not package execution. This is really helpful to debug those situation ...

Just finished my session here at PASS. Thanks a lot to those all who came, and thanks for the great feedback. I’ve made a promise that I’m going to release also the reports I showed in the demos asap, and I’ll do my best to do it, since so many of you are so interested in it. Meanwhile, if you wish, you can rate my session ...

Tomorrow morning I’ll fly to Seattle for the usual PASS Community Summit. I’m really happy for the next week. Even if this period is really full of work and a week away means that at my return I’ll have *really* busy times, the PASS Conference is always a nice break: meeting old and new friends, learning new things, enjoying beers and cocktails ...

With the latest release of DTLoggedExec, I’ve also added a nice functionality to make package runtime configuration a little easier, introducing the concept of “Package Parameters”. I’ve now updated the documentation adding details on how to use this new feature (is *really* easy, but is *really* useful) and, as usual, you can find it on ...