belle's sql musings

What’s Inside an SSIS 2012 .ispac File?

belle — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:10:37 +0000

If you’re curious, you can rename the .ispac file and give it a .zip extension, and extract. Voila, we see all the files that make up the ispac – a manifest, your DTSX files, and a .param file. Also note that the manifest does not have the usual uber-long .ssisDeploymentManifest extension No related posts.

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Get a Report Handle Using SSRS2008 and PowerShell V3

belle — Sun, 13 May 2012 18:10:53 +0000

In order to work with report items with SQL Server Reporting Services 2008, most of the time you need to get a handle to the report items. Here is a sample code snippet that uses the ReportingService2010 web service and PowerShell V3 CTP. cls #replace this with your reportserver web service URI $ReportServerUri [...]

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Dynamically Generate Database Snapshot Creation Script

belle — Fri, 04 May 2012 05:26:04 +0000

Just a short snippet to dynamically generate a database snapshot script. Could be useful especially if your database has multiple files and/or filegroups: -- run with "Results in Text" mode DECLARE @dbname VARCHAR(100) = 'SampleDB' -- we will timestamp both the snapshot name and the files DECLARE @currdate VARCHAR(20) SET @currdate = '_' + [...]

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SQL Server 2012 – BI Semantic Model, Multidimensional vs Tabular

belle — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:02:11 +0000

The landscape of Business Intelligence changes with SQL Server 2012. Microsoft has introduced a new “model” – the BI Semantic Model. Don’t get too hung up on this word though, the BI Semantic Model is really just an umbrella terminology that says as long as a source follows the BI Semantic Model, it will be [...]

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SQL Server 2012 x-Terms

belle — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:52:49 +0000

Just finishing up my presentation for this Saturday’s Vancouver Techfest, and was putting a slide for some of the x-terms in SQL Server 2012. Just thought I’d share it: xVelocity In Memory Analytics Engine In SQL Server 2008 R2 – this was introduced as Vertipaq for PowerPivot for Excel (see James Beresford blog about Vertipaq) [...]

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Admiration for Pragmatic Works Foundation

belle — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:31:48 +0000

Here’s a quote from the Pragmatic Works Foundation site: “The Pragmatic Works Foundation is a non-profit organization created to find passionate people who are interested in joining the technology field but cannot make the financial investments needed for training and hardware. The goal is to provide candidates the opportunity to learn new technologies from industry [...]

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Creating a SQL Server 2012 BI development environment (VHD)

belle — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:54:56 +0000

KIWI Microsoft and Richard Davis have put together a great how-to document for creating a SQL Server 2012 VHD for development and experimental purposes. How to Build a SQL Server 2012 Hyper-V Virtual Machine (KIWI build) So if you are thinking of exploring the new SQL Server 2012 capabilities, including the new BI capabilities (PowerView! [...]

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What’s New in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2012?

belle — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:07:01 +0000

SQL Server 2008 R2 was an exciting release for Reporting Services. It gave us features such as: - Shared Data Sets - Report Parts - New Visualization, including spatial visualizations There’s are also significant changes and new features to SSRS 2012 – but a some of these can only be materialized if you are using [...]

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