The Industry Insiders : Interoperability

USING SQL Server Integration Services to retrieve data from an IBM AS400

Andrew_Fryer — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:32:16 GMT

Thanks again to Jennifer Stirrup from Aspective (A Vodafone company) for writing up how she gets data into SQL Server using its in built Integration Services (SSIS) from an AS400 in this useful guide. This takes me back to my first ever BI project which was doing the same thing only with SQL Server 7 and Data Transformation Services, at least it’s easier now to find out where it’s all going wrong, but as Jenny points out it’s essential to have the right drivers and hotfixes for SSIS for this to work.

Free Microsoft Support resources

Eileen_Brown — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:24:00 GMT

Blake has compiled an amazing collection of all of the support resources, newsgroups, how to articles, team blogs and tips and published it here... This must have taken an amazing amount of time to review and research and is just about the most comprehensive collection of resources on one page that I've ever seen.

Read, and bookmark this collection of tips here. An absolutely fantastic job. Thank you Blake...

NDS Migrations

Eileen_Brown — Wed, 11 May 2005 17:07:00 GMT

Darren has written an article on some of the challenges and issues that you may encounter when migrating from Novell NDS to Windows Active Directory. It can be quite a complicated process which will fail without the right level of planning and testing. He discusses the different types of migrations, with the pro's and cons of each type of migration, he also discusses the Microsoft MSDSS tool and Quest NDS migrator. There's a good explanation of how the concepts of NDS translate to Active Directory, especially around X500 naming conventions and password migration.

here's his article

Windows / Linux Integration -- Making sense in the enterprise

jhoward — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:00:00 GMT

Jeremy Moskowitz, the author of "Windows / Linux Integration Handbook" due for publication around September this year has published a great article based on an excerpt from that book. If you want to understand more about this topic area and can't wait until that book hits the shelves, take a look.

You can read Jeremy's article here.