Most of the developers and DBAs know about two ways of deploying packages: You can deploy them to database server and run them using SQL Server Agent job or you can deploy the packages to file system and run them using dtexec.exe utility. Both approaches have their pros and cons. However I would like to show you that there is a third way (sort of) ...

Just recently I've inherited some SSIS packages that were in dire need of fixing however, as is often the case, most of my battles were with connection string configurations. It always baffles me when I see packages that don't log information that would be useful for debugging purposes and when its me that has to debug those packages I tend to ...

If you have ever written code to lock variables inside a SSIS Script Task or Script Component then you will probably have written some VB.Net code that looks something like this: Public Sub Main() Dim vars As Variables Dim fireAgain As Boolean = True Dts.VariableDispenser.LockOneForRead(''VarName'', vars) 'Do ...

Where do I send a thank you letter? Finally we are allowed to use C# in the SQL Server Integration Services Script Task. I always wondered why SQL Server 2005 only uses VB and not C#, you can use C# in the SQLCLR but not in a Script Task. It turns out that SSIS in SQL Server 2005 uses VSA (Visual Studio for Applications) but SQL Server 2008 will ...