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• SQL Server Benchmark of SSIS

  Hi, Has anyone seen any benchmark results for SSIS vs Informatica Thanks, David Mariner Okay, well, the one thing SSIS has going for it is its bias towards using SQL Server databases, and rightfully so. They may have Informatica there, however as of yet, SSIS is not a competitor when using other database platform destinations. So, room to grow if they want. Jamie, I hear ya though! My comments were based on years of experience with first-gen products, MS software notwithstanding. ...Show All

• SQL Server Trouble Connecting to SQL Server 2005

  Hi, I have SBS 2003 installed and have currently been working with Sharepoint. I upgraded to SQL Server 2005 using the methods described in the documentation provided on the SBS CD, which can be found here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkId=60500 I followed the document step by step and the installation completed without any problems, however after installation when trying to access a website I created in Sharepoint prior to upgrading I ran into this error: "Unable to connect to database." That error led me to the following Microsoft support article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823287 I followed all three methods in that article to ensure that the server is running and that it is configured properly, but it ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problems in debugging

  I encountered the error message below: First-chance exception at 0x7c812a5b in mda2.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: std::bad_alloc at memory location 0x0012f764.. Unhandled exception at 0x7c812a5b in mda2.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: std::bad_alloc at memory location 0x0012f764.. Any possible answers Am I out of memory It occurred at this line m1pos [ i ] = new int [m1[0]+1]; //allocate new array where m1pos is an array of pointers. When my input file is small, there is no error. When my input file is large, I will have this error. I am using the term bounds checking in a general manner. It is the type of stuff that makes sense; the type of stuff that programmers should do but we often a ...Show All

• Visual C++ A Couple Template Questions

  Hi folks, I have a couple questions about templates. I'm using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition 8.0.50727.762. Is there a reason why this compiles fine: ------------------------------------------------ template <typename T, int I> struct C1 {}; template <template <typename T, int I> class C1> struct C2 {}; int main (int argc, char * argv[]) { C2<C1> TEST; return 0; } ------------------------------------------------ But this does not (replaced class C1 with typename C1): ------------------------------------------------ template <typename T, int I> struct C1 {}; template <template <typename T, int I> typename C1> struct C2 {}; int main (int argc, char * argv[]) { C2&l ...Show All

• Windows Forms Passing data between forms

  HI i am trying to pass data form one form to another. I can do it with one piece of data (have only 1 textbox in my form,click send, and it gets send to the other form) but when i put 2 textboxes on my form1 i cant figure out how to do it. Any suggestions PS i used the Constructor approach when passing the 1 set of data between the 2 forms. Instead of the TextBox, pass a reference to the form. Now you can access all the controls and properties of the form. The Q&D way is: In Form1.vb: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim frm As Form2 = New Form2(Me) frm.Show() End Sub In Form2.vb: Public Class Form2 Priva ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XBOX360 DirectX Graphics Caps?

  Can someone post, or let me know where I can find a listing of the XBOX360's Graphics Capabilities: like those displayed under "Graphics Adapters" in the DirectX Caps Viewer on Windows Shawn Hargreaves - MSFT wrote: Robert Lettan wrote: Unless your graphics performance drops too sharply, remember you're trying to make sure never to go under 60fps otherwise it can seriously affect each aspect of the game as the xbox 360 will attempt to run faster in order to compensate so the output doesn't drop. That's not really accurate: the Xbox clock speed (both CPU and GPU) is fixed and not affected by framerate. I would be interested in knowing the cause of ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Datareader ODBC Source Error

  I am trying to import data from an ODBC source using the Datareader but have come accross a problem, can anyone help Whenever I try to do a 'SELECT * FROM sometable ' I get the following error: Error at Data Flow Task [DTS.Pipeline]: The output column "notes" (521) has a length that is not valid. The length must be betewwn 0 and 4000 Most of the tables we require have this field. Is there any way to by pass this error and import the field as DT_WSTR type and convert to DT_NTEXT Our original DTS package (2000) worked well but we would like to move forward. Thanks in advance. John ...Show All

• SQL Server Move table from one filegroup to another?

  Hi guys, I'm in middle of database re-development as part of performance enhancement, I have re-group the tables to optimize query IO and created corresponding filegroups to house the data. Is there a way (or code) to move each table to their respective filegroups At the moment all the tables are on Primary filegroup. I have group the table into 6 section each to with the view to move each section into one of the 6 filegroups - each filegroup on different diskdrive I have looked at alter table command but can't find anything to allow me accoplished this task. Any ideas please thanks. Yes, it would move the data. There's a ON <filegroup>clause in the CREATE INDEX syntax. So, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to add the firewall that i do to security zone

  how to add the firewall that i do to security zone. i tried but i couldnt. Sorry but this is a development forum and the question posted is in the wrong forum. you may wish to repost your question to the Microsoft communities as those are the correct forums/newsgroups to post your question to and to recieve a reply to quickly. www.microsoft.com/communities ...Show All

• Visual Studio Empty Interface and Sealed Class Topics

  I have a problem with both the Nov and Dec CTP releases of Sandcastle (which I drive with the corresponding versions of Sandcastle Build Helper app). I am trying to build documentation for a set of interrelated .NET 3.0 libraries, and have had success except for one main problem: some interfaces and all sealed classes are generated as empty, i.e. with no members. They actually do have public members, and I can find nothing particularly complex about these types: no nested types or use of generics, most of the interfaces aren't even derived. Has anyone else seen this problem and can offer a solution - Mike It could be the help file builder option DocumentExplicitInterfaceImplementations. You might try s ...Show All

• Visual Studio HELP with internet explorer 7

  Hey, i need help.. i'm only 12 years old so i don't understand a thing about this stuff. I'm using mozilla firefox because a viruus attacked my internet explorer and now the program is gone... I can't see my dsktop and all i can do is task manager to run this firefox.. it says it cant fine the EXPLORER.EXE and i need the normaliz.dll to be reinstalled.. o.o i dont get it.. PLEASE help me.... Typical cryptic response from Microsoft. If the kid goes to the ie/support site you suggest there is no opportunity to state his problem, just pre-digested questions and answers. So instead of a real answer you send him somewhere else. Why don't you go somewhere else! ...Show All

• SQL Server send mail using variables from select statement

  I'm getting the error "No recepient is specified". I have set up a dataflow from a select statement into a record set, then have that dataflow point to a ForEach group with a mail task in it. I have set up variables for the username and subjectline. So in the mail task I have no value in the To: line because I specify an "http://www.sqlis.com/59.aspx">http://www.sqlis.com/59.aspx exactly. I couldn't figure out how to included screen shots. Any ideas Sounds like you haven't set the To parameter properly. If you follow the instructions on the link, you should see the variable name in the To line not a blank field. One thing you can try is disable the send mail task, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Native MessageBox(): error c2440

  hi... I have this code in Main.cpp: Michael Kaplan of Microsoft has started blogging an example of how to convert a project to Unicode. He begins by setting up his code so that it will compile correctly either way, using the macros and types that are defined by the Platform SDK for precisely that purpose. This, along with lots of searching of MSDN on some of the fine points should be very useful in understanding the A, W, and "T" models that Microsoft supports. Check it out at Sorting It All Out: Converting a Project to Unicode . - Dennis ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Local VSTFS install and local user rights

  Hi, I was able to install TFS locally (since we don't use AD), and everything seems to be working ok. However when I set up the local accounts for the users I noticed that to let them connect from the client to the server they needed local administration rights on their local account on the server. I'd like to have them at most as power users but so far I can't get that to work. Thanks for any help, - John B After looking through my groups I don't see any the are directly related to Team Foundation Server. The closest I saw was a group for sharepoint. Is there groups in the VSTFS application as well that I missed Thanks - John ...Show All

• Visual C# Auto update and data in writable folder

  I'm developing Windows Client .Net application that does automatic updating. It currently saves the updated program in c:\Program Files\MyApp folder. We also write the program's data there. Some users don't have the ability to write into Program Files. Is there a better location that my application can auto update into and where i can have my application store data. I need to have any user who gets onto the computer able to read and write to this location, so My Documents doesn't work well. Is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents an appropriate place for my auto updating the program and saving the data We are using the NET Client Applications: .NET Application Updater Component from http://windowsforms.net/artic ...Show All