Monthly Archives: April 2011

SSIS – How to handle sensitive data

Posted on April 26, 2011 by taher

While working with developing SSIS you will eventually have to deploy your packages to a production environment. Chances are that you run in to this error message Error at  []: Failed to decrypt protected XML node “DTS:Password” with error 0x8009000B … Continue reading →

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SSIS naming conventions

Posted on April 21, 2011 by taher

I would suggest using the following naming conventions when working with naming conventions. Why? Naming conventions are good as it makes it easier for you and your fellow developers to read the existing packages. Why this set? The list comes … Continue reading →

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SSIS Script component task

Posted on April 21, 2011 by taher

Are you getting some weird errors while working with the Script component task in SSIS? I got errors like Ambiguity between Input0Buffer.x and Input0Buffer.x or The name ‘Output0Buffer’ does not exist in the current context and while googling the errors … Continue reading →

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Ice cream in the sun

Posted on April 16, 2011 by taher

Had a nice afternoon with some ice cream in the sun. Really nice =)

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Problems with timezones?

Posted on April 10, 2011 by taher

So here I am trying to install modx revolution on a Virtual LAMP server hosted somewhere outside my home. After setting up the basic things on the VPS such as Apache2, MySQL-server and the such I download modx revolution, crete … Continue reading →

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How to check the version on your Ubuntu server

Posted on April 10, 2011 by taher

Do you have a virtual private server (VPS) somewhere and want to know exactly what version of Ubuntu you’re running? From your termnial type: cat /etc/lsb-release for me that returns the following DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS” So, is … Continue reading →

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