Archive for March, 2006

dtsdoc: new product to document DTS packages

March 30th, 2006

I’m very pleased to announce you the release of a new product called dtsdoc (www.dtsdoc.com).

dtsdoc is focused in helping database administrators document SQL Server 2000 data transformation packages.
I got the idea to develop this product after several requests from dbdesc users who wanted to document their DTS packages.
At first, I considered adding this […]

SQL Server Express has no workload governor

March 16th, 2006

I’ve used MSDE as my database engine for most of my contract projects. I’ve never had any issue with MSDE (at least none that could be avoided if I had been using SQL Server).
However, by using MSDE, sometimes I’ve had to deal with some customers’ objections regarding the ‘MSDE 5 concurrent users limit’. I think […]

dbdesc 1.4.1 available

March 15th, 2006

Yesterday I’ve uploaded a small maintenance release of dbdesc.
These are the changes and bug fixes since version 1.4:

Get roles of each user
Document roles on SQL Server and Firebird databases
XSL templates translated to Spanish (choose custom install on the setup program to install them)
Documenting Access databases with the internal report engine was reporting wrong data types
Error […]