Sometimes one might like to identify a particular SQL Server resource using the Page ID this resource is under, you might notice a Page ID sometimes on the Activity Monitor page under the Wait Resource column, if a certain query is waiting on a particular resource, some DMVs will reference Page IDs as well as the SQL Server log files, I find it handy to be able to see exactly what SQL Server Object falls under this Page ID, in order to diagnose any issues with access to that particular resource.

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Without a doubt one of the most annoying and least useful errors I have ever encountered during my experience with SSIS.

This error has crept up on an SSIS packages that processes a dimension. The SSIS package is very simple and all it has is a OLE DB Source that dumps data from a query into a Dimension Processing task. The package executes fine until it reaches a particular row in the OLE DB source batch, in which it will fail with the following error message:

Dimension Processing Error: XML parsing failed at line 4, column 3391: Illegal xml character.

Descriptive!

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