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Looping through multiple servers in SSIS
This is just a quickie post to answer a question on how to loop through multiple servers in SSIS. There are a lot of options I’m not going to go into here due to lack of time. If someone expresses...
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A review of Knight’s 24-Hour Trainer Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration...
About three years ago my manager came up to me and said “We need someone to learn SSIS, you’re it.” So I started with my favorite approach. I picked a project, in this case monitoring backups on...
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Looping through multiple servers in SSIS part 2
Last week I posted a quick example of looping through multiple servers using SSIS and being in a bit of a hurry I didn’t really finish. Last time I created the loop and got it working, but didn’t do...
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Looping through multiple servers in SSIS Part 3
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve set up a SSIS package that will loop through a group of servers and export the list of databases to a central location. I used a Foreach Item Enumerator to list the...
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Copying Connection Managers in SSIS
Did you know you can copy and paste connection managers in SSIS? While I haven’t found this a huge benefit with OLE DB connections it can come in very handy for flat file connections. Here is an...
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Using DTEXECUI to generate a DTEXEC command line statement the easy way
SSIS is one of those tools that I love and hate at the same time. It’s a great ETL tool but to be honest it feels like it was written not just one committee but several different ones. And I won’t say...
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Finding active DTS packages
DTS is dead, long live SSIS. Way back when SQL 2005 was announced then released DTS was pronounced DOA. SSIS was the wave of the future. Everyone was so thrilled that posts like SSIS’ 15 faults and Why...
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What SQL version is my SSIS package?
When SSIS first came out there were huge numbers of jokes and posts about all of the problems and how everyone thought DTS was much better and did they really have to switch? Over the years I’ve come...
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TSQL Tuesday #66: Monitoring
If a user is going to call me about problem, I’d much rather know about it ahead of time. In fact my favorite problems are the ones I’ve already fixed before the users ever notice it. In order to...
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Phantom SSIS Changes
That SSIS change just won’t stick! There is a new business requirement, so now you have to change an existing SSIS package. You opened up a new project, imported the package, and made your changes....
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Installing the (currently) latest Data Tools
I’m working on a project right now and it’s going to require me not only to refresh my SSIS skills a bit but learn a few things that are only available with the latest tools. So everyone ready for a...
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Creating an SSIS project
Now that SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) has been installed the next step is to create a project. First, open up Visual Studios 2015 or SQL Server Data Tools 2015 (SSDT is really just a set of modules...
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Deploy an SSIS project to the SSIS catalog.
You’ve installed SSDT, created an SSIS project, created any packages you need and now you want to place that project and its packages onto the SQL instance so you can run them. FYI there are several...
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Changing the version of an SSIS package.
Of all of the annoying parts of SSIS, the major version sensitivity has to be the most annoying. Let’s say you create a package in SSDT 2012. You later open that same package with SSDT 16 without...
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We’ve been doing a lot of upgrading recently and at one point had to move an instance from one 2016 server to another. In the process, we found out (the hard way) that it’s not that easy to move SSISDB...
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SQL Homework – August 2019 – Getting the data out
Everything else aside two of the most important tasks of a database are to get data in, and get data back out again. This month let’s practice getting that data back out. Try out at least 3 of the...
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SQL Homework – September 2019 – Getting the data in
Everything else aside two of the most important tasks of a database are to get data in, and get data back out again. We did out last month, so let’s do in this month. Yea, it’s backward. Not the first...
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SQL Homework – November 2019 – SSMS built in reports
Time for some homework again. I know Pass Summit is this week so you may be a bit busy but regardless this is an important one. Did you know that SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) has a bunch of...
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