A Good Way To Use One Package In Dev And Prod - Best Practices
May 5, 2008
We have two different SQLServer 2005 databases, one for development and one for prod. I'm pretty new to DTS, and even newer to SSIS, and am working on converting a bunch of DTSs to SSIS.
Our DTS packages essentially were duplicated and edited for production because of the different server names, and some different directory names for sources and destinations. So the dev package would connect to the DBDEV database, and the prod to DBPROD, for example. When I create a package in dev and then copy it to prod, I have to go in and change all of the connections to now point to prod. There are also global variables pointing to various directories that need to be modified. Worse yet, there are also variables to directories set in ActiveX Script Tasks (which are deprecated and so need to be replaced). This is kludgy and error prone. So, since I'm learning SSIS and converting the packages, I would like to make them better.
What is a good way to specify the connections in a dynamic way? That way, when the packages are moved from dev to prod, the prod database can just be specified in one place. In other words, what are some best practices that I should know about? I'm reading this forum, and checking out links I find therein, but I also do better with specific examples (because I am so new to this).
Thank you for any guidance you can provide.
-thursday's geek
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Apr 8, 2008
Hi All,
We're trying to run an EXE from SSIS through "Execute Process" task.
The EXE folder contains other DLLs as well.
The EXE interacts with the database and reporting services and sends some e-mails(max 500 a day) out to customers.
My question is:
Is it ok to run this kind of EXE on the production SQL box?
If not, why?
(People argue that running EXEs is not advisable on production boxes)
Q: Why did Microsoft introduce "Execute Process" task when we cannot run EXEs on the production box?
If somebody can educate whether it's ok to run such EXEs on prod SQLs.
In either case, some explanation is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Siva.
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Dec 19, 2007
Hi all,
I need one more help!
we can select the dtsconfig file with the Environment variable(indirect configuration);
but i need to select the configuration file at runtime; i've to load the package from the server and apply local configuration file to the package and run in a web server;
Requirements;
1. i have packages with its xml configurations for connection strings alone!
2. i deployed it on the server
3. Trying to execute the packages in a web page onclick event;
We have ASP.net WebPage; in On_Click Event, i have this code;
Application ap = new Application();
Package pk = ap.LoadFromSqlServer("\PROJECT", "itsssqldb", "pmo_package_user", "password", null);
pk.ImportConfigurationFile(@"Packagesdev_staging.dtsConfig");
pk.Execute();
here PROJECT is the Package name; i'm loading the package from the Common Sequel Server 2005; and applying the configuration file to that package and trying to execute this;
but its not using the config file what i mentioned; its returning failure!!
Can you please help me to resolve this issue!,
(The intention of doing this job is to select the configuration file( prod, dev) at runtime)
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Feb 13, 2006
Would be interested in any advice or comment on the issue we are experiencing with SQL 2005.
In order to test some DTS package migrations, we simply created a DTS package on SQL 2000 (using Export) to copy all database objects from one database to another.
Then we restored the source database on SQL 2005 server, migrated the DTS package, and tried to execute it.
The package migrated 'fine', ran part way, and then failed. Since then we have been unable to connect to the server (Database Engine, or Integration Services) using Windows Authentication. (Error 18456, Sev 16, State 11).
We can connect to the Database Engine using SQL Authentication (but not to Integration Services which only allows Windows Authentication).
We have been able to replicate this consistently - every annoying time we've tried it!
(Reinstalling SQL Server does 'fix' the issue ... until you try a similar package again).
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Oct 2, 2007
how do you design a dev box?
how do you replicate from prod to dev?
Ideas will be appreacited.
do you get a bak file and restore it?
DTS ?
linkservers?
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Oct 28, 2014
I have table with column values as below. I need to change the folder name from QA to PROD.
C:QADocumentspdf1
C:QADocumentspdf2
C:QADocumentspdf3
C:QADocumentspdf4
C:QADocumentspdf5
and I need to change the path as below:
C:PRODDocumentspdf1
C:PRODDocumentspdf2
C:PRODDocumentspdf3
C:PRODDocumentspdf4
C:PRODDocumentspdf5
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Apr 15, 2008
Hi
How to move DTS packages from Dev env to Prod Env.(I know Export /Import).
Thanks in Advance.
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Aug 6, 2007
any suggestions on having one web config that once put on the dev servers uses the dev sql server and when put on prod will use the production sql server?
would like to encrypt it and be done with it. but it needs to recognize the server it's on.
I have a connection class that does this - but i need to use sqldatasource and not objectdatasource.
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Jul 7, 2004
for the first time in my long SQL DBA live I see such a behaviours. My tempdb database is growing every damn second since a this morning. Now it reached 30Gb, the log file is empty (217 Mb).
We use SQL 2000 Ent on Win 2000 Advance Server. Running Siebel Call Center (7.5 ver) with about 300 users.
Some users time to time obtain and hold a huge amount Exclusive locks on the tempdb extents
Where do I look for a leak?
Any ideas?
thx
Dim
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Apr 25, 2008
Hi all,
I've got two SQL Server 2000 (SP ??) instances (on two separate machines; Win Server 2003 Standard) that I've inherited. I want to use one of them as a reporting instance of production for a single ~4GB database, updated nightly.
In other DBMS's I'd set up log shipping or a simple dump-and-load to keep the two in sync, but I'm not very familiar with SQL 2000 (I used to admin a SQL Server 7 back-in-the-day but have been on Sybase ASE, MySQL (blech) and 'Orable since).
Any suggestions to do this easily and (fairly) painlessly?
Would I want to set up replication between the two? If so, which flavor?
-- To me, this seems a bit overkill. Plus I hate to muck with production unless I really need to
Would I use DTS to do this?
-- Seems straightforward but as I understand it, DTS under-the-covers is a bcp-type process, which can be fairly slow.
Or a simple dump-and-load (with copy)?
-- This seems the best option as we're already doing a nightly dump. However, the data will have to be shuffled off to the other server (or some sort of network share set up that it can access) and then a script fired off when the dump is complete. This seems the most "brittle" of the three options (if the dump hasn't finished yet, then the script copy and import will fail, etc.)
Surely this has been done over and over again (searching the archives didn't tell me anything, but the site search tool isn't that great).
Thanks!!
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Jan 16, 2008
Hello,
I have recently become a release manager for SRSS in our company.
Since then I've been swamped with requests to migrate reports, permissions and subscription lists from development environment to production.
Each time I have to do it manually with a lot of clicks. It is a real pain...
So, may be... may be there is an automation tool out there to help me? Does anybody know?
This tool or s/w package should move a report file along with its permissions and subscription lists from one server to another.
Please advise!
thanks,
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Mar 19, 2007
I have a package that uses configurations to override package settings based on what environment the package runs in. The package's configuration entries begins with an initial XML config entry that overrides the package's connection manager to a SQL database that holds the remaining configs in a table. Subsequent config entries then fetch their settings from the table. This package is run from a SQL job.
This all works fine in dev. When I moved everything into prod the packages are not getting configured and are using their values stored in the DTSX files. I've triple checked the XML config file, the tables with the configs, and the packages. There are no error messages. I've added some debuging steps to the package to verify that the configs in the table are not getting into the package.
I've also tried manually changing the configs in the table where the package is set to look if the initial XML config fails to adjust the config database location. The package still fails to see any configs from the table.
What could be different between dev and prod that would produce this situation? Both dev and prod have identical copies of the package and the job and are currently pointed to the same configurations database.
By the way, the other connections in the package work for both source selects and destination inserts. Only the configurations are failing, and again there is no error message.
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Feb 13, 2008
For critical systems running SQL 2000 I've always believed the development, QA and production instances should all be the same edition of SQL Server. I didn't want to take a chance of something performing differently in development then in QA and production due to dev being Standard Edition and QA and production being Enterprise Edition.
For SQL Server 2005 would you agree with this approach? I'm only referring to critical systems. Non-critical I am willing to take the chance.
What are your thoughts?
Dave
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So, we are about 3 weeks away from going into production, and somehow we failed to give much thought to deploying our RS project into production.
We have over 110 report models that need to be deployed into production, and until now, we just deploy into our dev and test environments using Visual Studio. But, in our production environment, our deployers will not have Visual Studio.
Is there any simply backup/restore method that can be used to move our test environment into production? Please don't suggest a copy of each file one at a time /sigh.
Appreciated,
Scott
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Hi,
I currently have a 2000 Ent. production server and a stand by server ready for transaction log shipping.
Is it possible to setup transaction log shipping on a live environment without any interruptions?
I'm currently backing up the log every 1 hour, I'd like to increase to 15 minutes.
Any help would greatly be appreciated.
Thanks,
- Gary
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I am migrating from local to Dev,QA and Prod.
I created a .dtsconfig file containing database connection strings to Dev database. What is the "location" on the Dev server where this .dtsconfig file nees to be deployed to??
Thanks for your help.
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Hey!
DDS triggers 3 - 4 times on Report Servers with 15 mints apart..any ideas?
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We are running Microsoft SQL 2005 Express.
All queries on our Production database are timing out. Viewing the error log file the following show up over and over again:
Autogrow of file 'tempdev' in database 'tempdb' was cancelled by user or timed out after 3937 milliseconds. Use ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH value for this file or to explicitly set a new file size.
Autogrow of file 'Prod' in database 'Production' was cancelled by user or timed out after 33156 milliseconds. Use ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH value for this file or to explicitly set a new file size.
Our production database is about 1 gig in size with 3.5 million records. I tried setting the autogrow from 30% which it was before to 100MB, but no luck, still timing out and getting the errors above. Permission should be all good, nothing has changed.
There is about 50gigs of available disk space as well, so that's not the problem. Thanks for the help.
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I'm having an issue to restoring database from prod to report server. I'm getting following error.
When I did Manually I got first error as below.
Msg 233, Level 20, State 0, Line 0 A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe.)
This is the second error
Msg 3044, Level 16, State 1, Line 37
Invalid zero-length device name. Reissue thestatement with a valid device name.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 37
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
Msg 5011, Level 14, State 5, Line 45
User does not have permission to alter database 'XeP', the database does not exist, or the database is not in a state that allows access checks.
Msg 5069, Level 16, State 1, Line 45
ALTER DATABASE statement failed.
Script Which I used.
USE Master;
GO
SET NOCOUNT ON
-- 1 - Variable declaration
DECLARE @dbName sysname
DECLARE @backupPath NVARCHAR(500)
[Code] .....
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Script> Set properties of ExecuteSQL > set flow to ExecuteSQL.
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