A long long long time ago (in 2006 in fact) I published a blog post entitled Suggested Best Practises and naming conventions in which I suggested a bunch of acronyms that folks could use to prefix object names in their SSIS packages, thus allowing easier identification of those objects in log records, here is a sample of some of those suggestions: ...

Since December 2010 I have been maintaining a suite of reports that can be used atop the SSIS Catalog in SSIS 2012, I called it the “SSIS Reporting Pack”. While building those reports I realised that there was also a need to make it easier to issue common but ad-hoc queries against the SSIS Catalog and that realisation gave rise to a stored ...

I recently stumbled across a nuance of the SSIS expression language which, when you think about, kinda make sense – but it does help to be aware of it. Its concerned with casting of datetime values using the SSIS expression language Take the following expression: (DT_WSTR,30) @[System::ContainerStartTime] That expression casts a datetime ...

This is something I’ve been meaning to blog about for ages but it kept slipping my mind, sorry about that! Wee Hyong Tok from the SSIS product team has built a slide deck that covers some of the deep secrets about SSIS2012 including: Catalog deep dive Security Low level monitoring and troubleshooting The slide deck is available to ...

v1.0.2.0 – what’s in it? Things have been a bit quiet on the sp_ssiscatalog front since I last blogged about it three months ago in December 2012. Rest-assured development continues apace however and today I’m making available a minor update, v1.0.2.0 which is now available for download from Codeplex. For those that don’t know I describe ...

Hugo Tap asked me on Twitter earlier today whether or not there existed a SSIS Dataflow Destination component that enabled one to MERGE data into a table rather than INSERT it. Its a common request so I thought it might be useful to summarise the current state of play as regards a MERGE destination for SSIS. Firstly, there is no MERGE destination ...

I was checking my Twitter feed on my way in to work this morning and was alerted to an interesting blog post by Valentino Vranken that highlights a problem regarding the OLE DB Source in SSIS. In short, using double-dash comments in SQL statements within the OLE DB Source can cause unexpected results. It really is quite an important read if you’re ...

13 days ago I wrote a blog post entitled Introducing sp_ssiscatalog (v1.0.0.0) in which I first made mention of sp_ssiscatalog, an open source stored procedure intended to make it easy to query the SSIS Catalog. I have been working on some enhancements since then and hence v1.0.1.0 is now available for download from Codeplex. What’s new in this ...

SSIS Reporting Pack is a suite of open source SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports that provide additional insight into the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2012 Catalog. You can read more about SSIS Reporting Pack here on my blog or had over to the home page for the project at http://ssisreportingpack.codeplex.com/. After having ...

I’ve been working on a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) solution for about 6 months now and I’ve learnt many many things that I intend to share on this blog just as soon as I get the time. Here’s a very short starter-for-ten… I’ve found the following query to be utterly invaluable when interrogating the SSIS Catalog to discover what is ...