Hi David,

I have more articles for this series in the pipe, but I would like to know more about your experiences with the series to date and...

Thanks David,

I have submitted the update. Usually Steve approves them and the updates appear within a couple days.

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Hi dwilliscp,

I am unsure about how the SSIS execution engine decides which cores - or how many cores - to utilize. From a purely SSIS perspective, the...

Hi dwilliscp,

When data is read from some flat file sources, SSIS treats it as unicode data. The data flow will not implicitly convert unicode to non-unicode data...

Excellent points, Steve,

Each time I'm reminded of the decision to not build 64-bit Excel drivers I think, "Think of all the money they saved!" Meanwhile, I've seen data integration shops...

Thanks msmithson - I am...

Richard Parsons-65 (12/19/2012)

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Hi Andy - great article, as ever. I can't see that I didn't follow your instructions to the letter but during the Mixing Constraint and Expression Evaluation...

Hi Richard,

Sometimes SSIS message boxes "hide". They will appear in the task bar but, although modal in every other sense, will not appear on top of the...

Hi Charles,

Thank you for reading my article.

I need to continue this series, definitely. I started, but have note yet completed, more articles.

Thank you,

Andy

Can you send me one of the offending packages? My email address is my firstname.lastname *at* gmail.

Hi Craig,

Poke around in the XML for the package. The easy way is to right-click in Solution Explorer and click View Code. See if it's lurking in...

Hi Joann,

Please drop me an email at

dataman777 (10/12/2012)

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Andy:

I have been working with SSIS for some time and basically learned most of the tricks the hard way. I'm looking forward to your future articles and would like...

Hi ThisIsFutile,

All magazines, whether online or in print, follow formatting rules. SQLServerCentral.com has been around for years and has been following the same publishing pattern for nearly...

Hi Joann,

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