FYI - Executing SSIS Jobs On IA64 With 32bit Drivers

Just an FYI for those scheduling SSIS packages on 64bit Itaniums.
This came to light when using a 32 bit OLEDB driver on a 64bit Itanium.




When manually executing the package on the server through SQL Management
Studio, we got the expected results. However, when we scheduled the
package as a job, it failed every time. The error was:
"The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager 'ConnectionName' failed with error code 0xC0202009€?.

We tried everything to fix this, but nothing worked. Finally we found
that when manually running the package, SQL Management Studio was calling the
32bit version of dtexec.exe, while the Agent calls the 64bit version of
dtexec.exe. The fix is to not use the "SQL Server Integration
Services Package" type in the job step, but use "Operating system
(CmdExec)" type. Then in the command box, call the 32bit (x86)
version of dtexec.exe.


Example:

C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server90DTSBinnDTExec.exe /DTS
"File SystemSSIS Packages[PackageName]" /SERVER [SQLSERVERNAME]
/DECRYPT [password] /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF
/REPORTING V