I am going to be doing a webinar with our friends at Attunity on Change Data Capture.  Attunity have a good story around this technology and you can use it in your SSIS loads to great effect. Join Attunity and Konesans/SQLIS for a Webinar on 17 September Space is limited. Reserve your... [More]

Sometimes when working with SSIS you need to add or change settings in the .NET application configuration file, which can be a bit confusing when you are building a SSIS package not an application. First of all lets review a couple of examples where you may need to do this. You are using referen... [More]

You can create package folders through SSMS, but you may also wish to do this as part of a deployment process or installation. In this case you will want programmatic method for managing folders, so how can this be done? The short answer is, go and look at the table msdb.dbo. sysdtspackagefolders90... [More]

Here is an example of how to do something that in DTS we would have had to do some coding in Script.  In our packages we often find the need to follow one path or another in the Control flow based on some condition that exists at runtime.  In the example below we use a variable value to de... [More]

So we got to playing with some of the ways that you can execute an SSIS package and got kind of curious about any overhead associated with the execution methods. From these thoughts came a few tests and here are our findings. We decided to look at performance over two different pipelines. We... [More]