The SSIS Catalog is surfaced within the SSISDB database. In this post I describe some tips for managing your SSIS Catalog database, named SSISDB. Create the SSIS Catalog To create the SSIS Catalog, connect to an instance of SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Open the Object Explorer and right-click the “Integration Services ...

I’m home after a day of travel that included waking up at quarter-til-early to catch a cab to SeaTac with Tim Mitchell [blog | @Tim_Mitchell], bumpy flights, and a two-hour drive back to Farmville. We had a fantastic time! Our students asked lots of interesting questions and Tim and I were, I believe, able to answer them all (with a little help – ...

Microsoft released an update to SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) 2016 on 20 Sep 2016 – the tool used to design databases, SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS solutions. I can hear you thinking, “How do I get the update, Andy?” You can get version 14.0.60918.0 here. If you have the installer for SQL Server 2016 handy, you can get to the download link very ...

I apologize for misleading people who read my writings and have heard me speak on the topic of the SSIS Catalog. Here’s what I recently realized: The execution_id is different from the operation_id in the SSISDB database. In the past, I complained about the execution_id and operation_id being the same value and meaning different things. To be ...

I’m honored and all giggly with anticipation about presenting at SQL Saturday 560 in Charlotte next Saturday, 17 Sep 2016! I’m presenting Biml and SSIS Frameworks, and I hope to see many of you there. For the SSIS Frameworks part of my presentation, I’m using SSIS Framework Community Edition, a free and open source SSIS Framework from Enterprise ...

A couple years ago, I wrote a series of guest posts about the Basics of SSIS for my friend Pinal Dave’s [Blog | @pinaldave] popular blog, SQL Authority. In that series, I pointed out that I use only a handful of SSIS Control Flow tasks when designing SSIS packages. You can find the series here: Execute SQL Task Data Flow Task ...

In this post, I’m going to demonstrate how to build the objects Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) requires before creating anything – the Biml Relational Hierarchy. The Biml Relational Hierarchy provides the foundation for all relational interaction between packages, cubes, dimensions, facts, and T-SQL. It’s important to note that Biml ...

We’re proud to announce the release of SSIS Catalog Compare v1.0! SSIS Catalog Compare compares the contents of two SSIS Catalog instances, surfacing SSIS project-related configurations metadata in treeview controls. Data Integration Lifecycle Managers, DevOps personnel, and configuration and release managers can script configurations metadata ...

Biml Academy 2 – Lessons 5-9 – will be 15-19 Aug 2016. Each 1-hour session will begin at 1:00 PM EDT and will be recorded. Join Cathrine Wilhelmsen (blog), BimlHero and Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Scott Currie (creator of Biml and Mist), and me as we explore staging and loading data using SSIS packages generated by Biml. Monday 15 Aug: ...

There are several ways to stop and executing SSIS package. If the package is executing in the SSIS Catalog, you can use the SSISDB.[catalog].stop_operation stored procedure. Stop_operation has one parameter – a bigint named @operation_id. You can execute the stored procedure thus: exec SSISDB.[catalog].stop_operation @operation_id = ...