SSIS Catalog Environments– Step 20 of the Stairway to Integration Services is live at the Stairway to Integration Services site at SQL Server Central! Enjoy! :{>

In my article titled A Custom Execution Method – Level 19 of the Stairway to Integration Services posted at SQL Server Central, I created a stored procedure to execute SSIS packages stored in the SSIS Catalog. Really, all I did was build a rudimentary wrapper for the stored procedures used by the SSIS Catalog to execute packages. To learn more ...

A Custom Execution Method – Level 19 of the Stairway to Integration Services is live at the Stairway to Integration Services site at SQL Server Central! Enjoy! :{>

I’ve moved my SSISDB scripts from Gist to GitHub where I can maintain them more comfortably. So far, I’ve published 6 scripts: ssis-execution-status: Latest executed packages ssis-execution-breakdown: Execution breakdown for a specific execution ssis-execution-dataflow-info: Data Flow information for a specific execution ...

I credit my friend and brother, Chris Yates (Blog | @YatesSQL), for inspiring me to write this post with his (excellent) post: Reports in SSIS. If I had a nickel for each time I’ve been asked, “What permissions are required for SSIS?” I would have a lot of nickels. It’s a fair question with an unfair answer, “It depends.” “It Depends on ...

''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 ...

When you create an SSIS Project using SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence (SSDT-BI), a new, empty SSIS package is added to the project. It is named “Package.dtsx.” One of the first things you want to do is rename this package, providing a more descriptive and more unique name. To rename the package, right-click the package name ...

SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence (SSDT-BI) is a rich Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It is a version of Microsoft Visual Studio, and you can tell by looking at the title bar when you open SSDT-BI. Click on the image to enlarge and you will see “Microsoft Visual Studio” right there in the title bar. If the Start Page ...

I am honored to present at the Richmond SQL Server User Group 15 Jan 2015! I am honored to be presenting at the Charlotte SQL Server User Group 21 Jan 2015! If you will be in either area on those evenings, please stop by!  :{>  

People often ask me for tips on getting started with SSIS. My advice is always the same: Get a copy of SQL Server Developer Edition. At the time of this writing, the current version of SQL Server is SQL Server 2014. If you work in an organization that uses SQL Server, you may be able to obtain a copy of SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition from ...