The last video nugget that I produced seemed to be fairly well received so I thought I would attempt a few more; and indeed, here is the next one. In this video I demonstrate a simple technique for outputting data to an XML file using SSIS’s Script Task. The video is 8m22s long and is embedded below however I’m aware of some problems that we ...

A few weeks ago I published a blog entitled Collecting information about your SSIS packages which demonstrated a way that you could use T-SQL and XQuery to derive information about your SSIS packages. Since then I’ve made a few amendments to the script that accompanied that blog post as follows: New columns The collected data now includes the ...

Did you know that is is possible to read the contents of a SSIS package (i.e. a .dtsx file) from within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) using T-SQL? For example, take the following T-SQL snippet: select cast(BulkColumn as XML)from openrowset(bulk 'C:\tmp\MyPkg.dtsx', single_blob) as pkgColumn; It uses OPENROWSET ...

In class this week, I got asked a few times about the technical books I'd recommed for fulks interested in the data space. While I've had a list up on Amazon for while, I thought I'd post an updated list here. I'd love to hear your suggestions, too! Business Intelligence Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel: Gordon S. Linoff Data Mining & ...

This is a follow-up to a posting from several months ago (Using XML Data Type Methods to query SSIS Packages). I included a temp table (based on information I found in the Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.VarTypeConvert class's constructor) which gives the conversion of the numeric data type value to the appropriate TypeCode (System.TypeCode). ...