BizTalk Community Series: With Suleiman Shakhtour

It is time to continue the BizTalk Community Series after a recent successful event in Norway, the Bouvet BizTalk Innovation Day. This event was a great opportunity for me to meet up with many Scandinavian BizTalk professionals.

During the two day event we as BizTalkCrew, Kent Weare and Paolo Salvatori (Microsoft) presented about the latest (Windows Azure BizTalk Services, BizTalk 2013), proven

SQL query: hourly processed messages for BizTalk ports

One of my clients wanted to know how many messages were processed on a certain BizTalk port.
To show some statistics, I created a SQL query that lists a message count of the messages processed per hour for a certain Port.

Here’s the SQL query I used:


use BizTalkDTAdb

SELECT top 200
a.[Event/Direction],
a.[Event/Port],
CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), a.[Event/Timestamp], 111) as [date],
DATEPART(HOUR,a.[Event/Timestamp]) as [Hour],
COUNT(*) as [Count]
FROM [dbo].[dtav_MessageFacts] a
inner join dbo.btsv_Tracking_Parts b on a.[MessageInstance/InstanceID] = b.uidMessageID
WHERE a.[Event/Port] <> 'PortSqlMonitor'
AND a.[Event/Port] = 'BizTalkPort'
AND a.[Event/Direction] = 'Receive'
AND a.[Event/Timestamp] > DATEADD(day, -3,GETDATE())
GROUP by a.[Event/Port], CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), a.[Event/Timestamp], 111), DATEPART(HOUR,a.[Event/Timestamp]), a.[Event/Direction]
ORDER BY CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), a.[Event/Timestamp], 111), DATEPART(HOUR,a.[Event/Timestamp])
Azure BizTalk Services – Unable to reach  <servicebusnamespace.servicebus.windows.net via TCP (9351, 9352) or HTTP (80, 443)

Azure BizTalk Services – Unable to reach <servicebusnamespace.servicebus.windows.net via TCP (9351, 9352) or HTTP (80, 443)

I have been trying to complete the “Using BizTalk Service Bridges to Send and Receive Messages from Service Bus Relay Service” tutorial and I kept on getting this error in Step1: Build and Deploy the Relay services. Whenever i try to run RelayReceiverServiceA.exe 2 <ServiceBusNamespace> owner <Issuerkey> /RelayReceiverServiceA from the command line the relay does […]
Blog Post by: mbrimble

MVP: Azure MVP re-awarded!!!

I received an email in the early hours of this morning right when Arsenal just slotted
one home in the Champions Leagueand I thought”Can this moment get any better?” –
YOU BET! My MVP re-award email came through 🙂

Big thanks to the folks at Microsoft for bestowing this award to me again (9th year
running) and being given the chance to be part of a great knowledgeable MVP community.

The real thanks goes to you guys in the community of which I try to make a difference
in the Azure Space. With cloud offerings changing every other week (it feels like),
it’s almost a full time job keeping on top of things. New numbers, bigger limits,
faster storage, different ways to manage traffic, connections, deployments, code platforms
and the list goes on.

Thanks to each and all of you for making this award possible in this great country
– Australia (down under, Oz and any other name you know it as)

Boom!!

or as a friend says ’Ka-Boom!’

Blog Post by: Mick Badran

Azure BizTalk Services – The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly.

Azure BizTalk Services – The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly.

I got this error when I attempted to deploy the second tutorial , “Using Azure BizTalk Bridges to Insert Flat File Messages into an On-premises SQL server”. I had successfully completed the first tutorial after dealing with some deployment errors here and was on a roll but got stuck on this sucker. The full deployment […]
Blog Post by: mbrimble

The Pendulum Swing of Flat Design

I dislike visual clutter. Most people do. Perhaps they can’t articulate it. I know most of our clients say things like, “It looks too crowded,” if presented with something that strikes them that way. They don’t use the words “visual clutter” as we would in design parlance.
However, that idea of clutter-reduction has recently over-reached it […]
Blog Post by: Krish Mandal