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Here’s the crazy thing. The package would run perfectly when I ran it directly or via a batch file, but when I ran it through the SQL Agent Job it would die and I would see a message like this in the log file I set up:

DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Connection 1" failed with error code 0xC0209303. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the AcquireConnection method call failed.

I tried all of the work-arounds mentioned on this page. However none of them helped.

The answer it turns out is that 64 bit SQL Server Integration Services can’t handle Excel (xls) files! The trick is to use the 32 bit runtime of dtexec. To make the SQL Agent Job do this, go to the execution options tab of the job step and select “use 32 bit runtime”.

Mini Searches with Answers

Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:00:06 +0000

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Why are they called chocolate chip flavored cookies?
This guys says it's because they don't have real chocolate chips, rather oil flavored with chocolate.

How to connect to Sybase from SSIS 2008 (Windows Server 64 bit)
To manage a data source that connects to a 32-bit driver under 64-bit platform, use c:\windows\sysWOW64\odbcad32.exe. To manage a data source that connects to a 64-bit driver, use c:\windows\system32\odbcad32.exe.
If you use the 64-bit odbcad32.exe to configure or remove a DSN that connects to a 32-bit driver, for example, Driver do Microsoft Access (*.mdb), you will receive the following error message:

The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application
To resolve this error, use the 32-bit odbcad32.exe to configure or remove the DSN.

Primitive Data Types (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)
Java – What is the value of a long variable after it is declared but before it is set/initialized? Answer is 0L.

moreofit – Website Similarity Search Engine
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weka – Use WEKA in your Java code

Home – PythonSecurity.org
Useful Python articles

Join in Java [java] [string]
How to join a collection into a delimited string in Java.

In Python it's ','.join(list). Oh Python, I miss you.

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Mini Searches with Answers

Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:00:05 +0000

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

clueTip: A jQuery Tooltip Plugin
A good tooltip library for jquery that I used today

Search Engine Ranking Factors | SEOmoz
An authoritative chart of the top SEO factors

Tip: Scaling your Remote Desktop session « llemarie’s weblog
I woke up today and connected to remote desktop and it wouldn't scale to fit my screen anymore. It just gave me it in a window with these awful scroll bars.

This post tells how to fix this.

WatchOCR
Linux live CD to OCR PDF files on a watched folder

SSRS – Group_Concat Equivalent using an Expression? – Stack Overflow
How to do group_concat in SQL Server. It's actually not that bad in 2005 and above.

/trunk/python/arff.py – dataformat
The only arff file parser I found with no external dependencies.

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How to use the weka ARFF parser … I think

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