SSAS 2008 - INI Files and in place upgrades - Andrew Calvett

by ACALVETT

Being the suspicious person i am i wondered if there would be any differences in the MSMDSRV.ini of an instance upgraded from 2005 as opposed to a clean install.

Now obviously i expect an in place upgrade to preserve my settings and add any new ones because it should not overwrite anything since i might have change from defaults for a good reason…….

Below is what i found followed by my thoughts….

Looking at what has changed they appear to be settings which may well have been tuned as a result of lessons learnt at Microsoft. The removal of AggregationPerfLog i suspect is cosmetic and the setting probably does nothing since there is another one called AggregationPerfLog2 which i suspect replaces it. Its also quite likely the same is the case with MinCalculationLRUSize.

An important thing to take away here is that an in place upgrade may not perform/behave the same way as a clean install because by default its ini file is going to be different. In my case i`m checking out the impact of the settings with a view to adding a step to our upgrade path to change them to the clean install values.

One more thing to get you thinking. If the settings did change based on lessons learnt, maybe its worth porting these back to 2005 and taking them for a spin…………. Test test and test some more!

Source: SSAS 2008 - INI Files and in place upgrades - Andrew Calvett

FG Orders Security Alert over Toxic Waste Shipment

20.07.10

The Federal Government, has asked the relevant security agencies in Nigerian ports to be on the look out as a Dutch vessel M.V Nashville with  registration number UE/SU4635950 laden with toxic cargo has for the second time been intercepted and turned back while trying to berth at the Ivorian Port of Abidjan.

A source at the National Environmental Standards Regulatory and Enforcement Agency (NESREA) ,who spoke to THISDAY, said the toxic bearing ship had earlier been turned back while attempting to berth at the Tin Can Island Port in Apapa, Lagos by a combined team of port officials comprising the Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Maritime Administration and safety Agency, (NIMASA), Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Nigeria Police, Nigeria Customs Service, State Security Service (SSS), Port Health and NESREA.
It said the vessel carrying 70 storage (lead) batteries classified as Bassel Code 1180, broken television sets and other hazardous e-waste was intercepted and turned back  at the Nigerian Port on April 15 following a tip-of from the Dutch environmental watchdog VROM Inspectorate.

Source: THISDAY

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