I have been poking around idly in the RC0 release of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2012 and noticed a few nice enhancements that hadn’t really hit the newsstands as yet (well, I didn’t know about them anyway). Here is a quick rundown:
Expression is viewable in the Variables window
Fairly self-explanatory this one. If a variable has an expression applied to it that expression can now be seen in the Variables window; also notice that the variable icon gets an adorner specifying that there is an expression upon it. What is not so obvious is that if you add an expression to a variable then the EvaluateAsExpression property of that variable is automatically set to True:
That’s a welcome enhancement.
New System Variables
There are some new System variables available to you, some of which might be useful (one of which is very useful indeed):
I have not found any documentation on these as yet so I’ll take a guess at what are for:
- IgnoreConfigurationsOnLoad – This is a boolean variable so I can only assume it does what it says on the tin – ignores configurations. The default value is False. I would assume that this doesn’t have any affect if you are using the new project deployment model.
- ProductVersion and LastModifiedProductVersion – In the package I am looking at these are both set to 11.0.1750.32 which is the same build number as in Help->About
The only thing I don’t understand is that if this package was built in a prior version (CTP3) why they are set to the same value?
- ServerExecutionID – This one is very useful indeed. It provides the ExecutionID that the SSIS Catalog assigned to the current execution.
Hope that helps!
@jamiet