''The SSIS Catalog is a database and an application.'' - Andy Leonard, circa 2015 If there’s one thing I want you to get from this post, it’s this: The SSIS Catalog is a database and an application. While it’s a pretty cool database and application, it isn’t anything different from the databases and applications you support every day. As ...

This is a heads-up for anyone doing development on SSIS. On my current project where we are implementing a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2012 solution we recently encountered a situation where we were unable to deploy any of our projects even though we had successfully deployed in the past. Any attempt to use the deployment wizard ...

Over the past year or so I have written at length about the SSIS Catalog that will be provided in the upcoming version of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS 2012) and the capabilities that it will bring; one of the biggest benefits (in my opinion) is that logging is now something that is taken care of on your behalf. Many SSIS developers have ...

In my blog post SSIS Server, Catalogs, Environments & Environment Variables in SSIS in Denali from November 2010 I alluded to forthcoming enhancements in the logging infrastructure when I said: One final note on logging. The fairly limited information that gets captured in the current CTP is not the same as what will be in the product upon ...