• Strange Sch-S / Sch-M Deadlock on Machines with 16 or More Schedulers

    Since it took me several days to track down this bug, and I did learn a couple of new things along the way, I thought I would share some of my work. 16 or More CPUS When a system presents SQL Server with 16 or more CPUs, and you are using a high end SQL...
  • Syntax error, permission violation, or other nonspecific error

    While developing a package in BIDS 2008 if we use SNAC 10.0 driver in OLE DB Source connection, call to parameterized stored procedure fails parsing with error: Syntax error, permission violation, or other nonspecific error If we change the connection...
  • Error While Deploying SSIS 2012 project from SSDT to SSIS Catalog : System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: A required privilege is not held by the client

    A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user-defined routine or aggregate "deploy_project_internal": System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: A required privilege is not held by the client. I ran across this issue in one of my newly...
  • Migrating UTF8 data from Oracle to SQL Server using SSMA for Oracle

    Before we could begin our Data Migration, you’ll need to clearly understand what is UTF8 is the 8-bit encoding of Unicode? It is a variable-width encoding and a strict superset of ASCII. This means that each and every character in the ASCII character...
  • Error: "The underlying provider failed on Open" in Entity Framework application

    My name is Archana CM from Microsoft SQL Developer Support team, we support many data access technologies including Entity Framework, SSIS. I had chance to work with developer who was having issues in his Entity Framework, one of the issue was while adding...