Yep it’s more SSIS again this week. Here we’ll be looking at using Environment configuration within the SSIS catalog. This allows sets of parameters to be defined and used across multiple projects and packages which share common values. This approach can either be used as a central point for configuration, or you could use multiple […]
Last week we looked at project parameters in SSIS to help us configure our projects. This can help us to tailor the project to the package its in for example. Here we’ll look at using Configurations within Visual Studio to manage those parameters for multiple environments. Configuring parameters We’ll start out with the project used last time […]
Last week we looked at configuring SSIS packages using package configuration. This week we’ll look at another approach for configuration: Project Configuration Project Configuration is the standard way to configure projects. This took over from the legacy approach which we looked at last week. This method allows us to share common parameters and connections across an […]
Configurations for Integration Services packages allow us to tailor their execution without needing to redeploy. There are two main ways to manage these configurations – Package Configuration and Project Configuration. In this post we’ll look at the Package Configuration approach. Package deployment The ability to use Package Configuration is only available when the project is […]
I’ve recently been reviewing SSIS packages to make some performance fixes and needed a way to validate the results of those changes. I thought I’d share the scripts as they may be useful for others. Rather than relying on run times from the SQL Agent running the packages I wanted to dive deeper into the […]
Within SSIS you can make use of custom components which aren’t present out of the box. An example of some would be the Azure Feature Pack if you’re working with cloud resources. These will let us use features not available natively. They can also provide a challenge down the line when we come to deploy changes to […]
When executing packages for SSIS the default option would be to use the SQL Server Agent service account. We might not want to share an account between our services and Integration Services packages due to security risks. Let’s take a common example: Suppose we have a package which reads from a file share. If permissions […]
Being able to parse flat files is pretty standard work in SSIS but recently I came upon a situation when reviewing a package and there was something very strange happening with a timestamp being imported. Below you can see an example of the source file and its destination in the database. Clearly there’s something wrong […]
If we’re running SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) then it’s database is the wonderful place where we store our packages ready for execution and the lovely logs we can interrogate when those packages inevitably break (of course not, our code is perfect, right?) This database is all well and good in a fresh environment however […]
Andy Brownsword 