I live in Charlotte and would love to go to pass, but flying out to Seattle is prohibitive. Why not move it around year to year and expose more people...

I'm ok with it executing pre and post because i want to catch the pre/post rowcounts when my handler runs. I totally agree with you that I wouldn't want some...

No, because at the package level the event handler would be fired, not an event handler for each execute sql task. You're right, I could use the source::name but that's...

Sure I can elaborate but don't want to lose sight of the original question. What I want to do is create an event handler that takes a table name as...

The problem with trying to write anything to do this is your statement that the file is placed in random locations on the web server. You need a consistent location...

You're just scratching the surface of the intellisense problems. I've found it so frustrating because it's auto complete has made so many mistakes that I've turned it off.

Let me see if I can dig that code up. I've since switched jobs but might have saved a copy. If not I can get in touch with someone else...

You're describing exactly what we had to do in an app we wrote a few years ago. We had a .net service that monitored the queue and pulled the xml...

What about hardware differences? CPU/Memory/Disk Layout? What about usage? Number of users/requests per server?

I just finished the the developer and DBA tracks for the SQL 2008 certs and I have to say they were pretty useless tests. The first ones for each track...