Deploying SSIS packages into SQL Server vs Deploying as a File
In earlier days we have the options to save the DTS packages to SQL Server or to File System. Many of you trying to understand the trade offs between them. This post list out the advantages of both options.
Advantages of Saving and Deploying SSIS packages to File System
- We can use Source control system manage the versions.
- More secure when using the encrypt with user key encryption.
- Packages are available when you save locally. not subject network downtime problems.
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1 commentDeploying SSIS packages into SQL Server vs Deploying as a File
In earlier days we have the options to save the DTS packages to SQL Server or to File System. Many of you trying to understand the trade offs between them. This post list out the advantages of both options.
Advantages of Saving and Deploying SSIS packages to File System
- We can use Source control system manage the versions.
- More secure when using the encrypt with user key encryption.
- Packages are available when you save locally. not subject network downtime problems.
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No commentsUsing Data Profiling Task in SSIS
| Data Profiling is important in data quality processing and transformation. It provides a way to investigate large datasets and to identify incorrectly formatted data. This post explains doing data analysis using Data Profiling task. |  |
Data Profiling task helps you to
- Identify the problems with your data. Example: Finding the products in your data which are not following the naming pattern.
- Identify the missing functional dependencies between columns. Example: State and Zip code columns. It helps you identify wrong ZIP code that has been entered for a state or city.
Setting up Data Profile Task
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2 commentsRunning SQL Server JOBS with different user accounts in SQL 2008
| This post discusses about configuring different user account to JOB running in SQL Server 2008. By default SQL JOBs runs under service account that you have configured while installing the SQL Server. You can follow the below steps to change the user account that running under JOB | |
1. Open SQL Server Management Studio and expand the SQL Server Agent node and Select the JOB that you want to change the running account.
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No commentsCreating a Database Unit Test using Visual Studio 2010
| This post discusses about creating a database unit test case in Visual Studio 2010 which verifies the functionality of a stored procedure. Creating Database Test cases helps you to identify the code defects which in-directly effects the application behavior. In order to create a database unit test, you need to VS studio 2010 test suite or ultimate version. |  |
Before writing a unit test case , define a schema file and create a database project and deploy to the database as shown below.
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1 commentUsing Memory Beyond 4GB in SQL Server
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Physical Address Extension (PAE) allows you to use up to 64 GB of physical memory depending on operating system you use. All existing 32 bit processors supports this extension of memory. PAE mode requires an Intel Architecture processor and more than 4GB of RAM. |
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You can configure at two levels to use Memory Beyond 4GB in a 32 bit windows server operating system.
- Operating System Level
- Application Level
To enable operating system to access more than 4GB of physical memory , add a /PAE switch in boot.ini file as below
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No commentsAnalyzing SQL Server Performance using Performance Monitor Counters
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This post discusses about using Performance Monitor tool to create a base-line using different performance counters. It also discusses analyzing hardware resource bottlenecks and retrieving performance monitor data in sql server using views. Performance Monitor Tool collects the detailed information of system resources including memory, processor , disk and network.SQL Server 2008 provides extensions to Performance Tool to analyze various areas in SQL Server. |
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Performance Monitor tool provides performance counters to represent the specific aspects of a resource.
What is Performance Counter?
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No commentsCreating SQL Server Database Objects Backup using SMO
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This post explains taking the SQL Server Database Objects backup only schema not data in SQL Server 2008 R2. In an ETL server you may come across the situation where you need to change the database objects schema quite frequently especially when data source changes. In this case we may need maintain our schema or take the backup our database objects script some place where we can restore them back to the server. |
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What is SMO?
This can be achieved in earlier versions of SQL Server using Distributed Management Objects (DMO) but now it is no longer supported in SQL Server 2008 R2 and future versions. We can achieve the same using SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) in 2008 R2. SMO provides objects which are used to manage SQL Server.
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1 commentCreating Maintenance Plans in SQL Server 2008 R2
| One of the repetitive task that DBA need to perform is create maintenance plan for database. Maintenance plans enables you to automate maintenance activities for a database, backups, db integrity checks and index maintenance tasks. We can easily create a maintenance plan using a wizard in sql server 2008 R2. | |
You can use the following steps to create a maintenance plan
1. Select the Maintenance Plan Wizard from the context menu as shown below
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No commentsCreating Maintenance Plans in SQL Server 2008 R2
| One of the repetitive task that DBA need to perform is create maintenance plan for database. Maintenance plans enables you to automate maintenance activities for a database, backups, db integrity checks and index maintenance tasks. We can easily create a maintenance plan using a wizard in sql server 2008 R2. | |
You can use the following steps to create a maintenance plan
1. Select the Maintenance Plan Wizard from the context menu as shown below
