Jobs And Configuration Files
Dec 26, 2007
Please forgive me if my question is pre-emptive (as in, I haven't throughly researched this yet), but I'd like to know in advance the following question:
Q. When scheduling SSIS jobs to run packages (in msdb), do I specify a configuration file in the job? Is this how one uses the configuration file? Or is the configuration file "configured" at the SSIS package level, before you schedule the job? Or both?
Also, is there a good link on this topic? I'm already afraid I'm going to be confused!
Thanks much!
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Sep 12, 2007
Such a simple task. Not doing as it should!!
This Maintenance Cleanup Task is set to delete all BAK and TRN files it's made (in seperate maintenance plans) in given path, with the given file extension, delete files based on the age of the file at task run time. Delete files older that 4 days.
The files are now backing up for months and months. I'm not going to take care of this. I've got a computer to do this for me, every time it runs its jobs, every 4 hours and once overnight.
This is ignoring commands and refusing to do as it's told. I've checked the settings in here over and over. It's so simple - what could be wrong? I've checked the path, the file age, the extensions... The disks are getting full!
Has anyone seen anything like this?
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Dec 10, 2007
In SQL2005 (SP2) I have a standard user (User1) who owns some jobs. He has been granted the "SQLAgentUserRole" in the MSDB database so he can see his jobs and run them. He has all the normal permissions (Select, Update, Insert, Execute, Delete, View References) to the schemas in the database he works in.
Here is my problem. When a developer who is logged in as User1, tires to edit a job step that has an output file (which was initially moved from another server by a DBA with SA rights) he gets the following error message.
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
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Only a sysadmin can specify '@output_file_name' parameter for a jobstep. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 14582)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00.3156&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=14582&LinkId=20476
I have tired all kinds of permissions (like granting the user SQLAgentOperatorRole) but it is still a no go. If I (as the DBA) remove the job step's output file, then he can edit it. He can also edit other job steps in the job, as long as they do not have output files associated with them.
How can I let the job owner use output files with their job steps and not make them SA. It just does not make sense.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Jim Youmans
St Louis MO
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Jan 17, 2008
Hi,
I am having a hard time grasping how to use configuration files.
Here's an example:
I created a simple package (one execute sql task) that simply does a "select * from xyz". Table xyz only exists on Server 1.
I then created a configuration file, the only setting being the ole db connection manager which is pointing to Server 1. I then went into the file and added the "password=zzz" since it's a sql server login.
When I run the package it worked.
Next, I went into the configuration file I just created and had it point to another server, Server 2, thinking this would now cause the execute sql task to fail since table xyz does not exist on Server 2.
But it's still running succesfully. What's the deal here? Shouldn't changing the configuration file settings cause the package to now fail?
Thanks
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Jun 20, 2006
Hi all,
I am using XML Configuration Files to configure my package connections, but when i use them on a Database Transfere Task every time i try to open those packages on a different machine from the one in which it was created i got the following error:
Validation error. «Connection_name» : The Validate method on the task failed, and returned error code 0x80131501 (Failed to connect to server «Defined Server».). The Validate method must succeed and indicate the result using an "out" parameter. «Package Name»
Anyone knows why?
thanks,
VĂtor
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Jun 19, 2006
Hi,
I€™m having
some issues associated with the configuration files that I can€™t understand:
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Having
a project with several packages using the same connections in each one (some
packages use all connection and others I just have some of them), why can€™t I use
only one configuration file for all project. Assuming that I would have to
configure all packages at least I would like to use always the same file. On
the other way I would need 100€™s of configuration files (one per package) to
configure always the same connection, just because not all the packages use
exactly the same connections.
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Having
a configuration file on a machine, the package saves the full path, even if the
configuration file lays in the same path them the project. When I change my
project to another machine that doesn€™t use the same file structure forces me
to open every package and change the configuration file location.
Having 100€™s of packages and a team of
developers, even using the source safe, this makes the task just a little difficult
Thanks,
VĂtor Ferreira
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Feb 15, 2008
I am deploying SSIS packages using the deployment utility. We are starting to use configuration files for storing connection information. I have the configuration files in a directory on the server I am deploying the packages to, I want all new packages deployed to use these files. When I deploy a new package it wants to overwrite the config files on the server with the ones in the package. I have tried to remove the .dtsconfig file from the package deployment folder but then the package will not use the config files on the server. How do you deploy a package and get it to use the .dtsconfig files that are already on the server?
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Feb 28, 2006
I have a package with a corresponding configuration file.
If I open Sql server management studio and i connect to SSIS and right click to import a package, and then select to store the package in SQL Server (not on the file system)....
What happens with the configuration file?
Does the import take the values from the configuration file and place them in the package which then is stored in SQL Server?
Or do I need to put the configuration file someplace on the SQL Server where the package is imported so it can access it when it runs?
I'm a bit confused about what goes on there?
For example, I tried using the build command and then running the manifest file to import using the wizard and when it does that it copies the configuration files to a default location within the c:program filesmicrosoft sql server directory.
Thx.
R-
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Jul 17, 2007
Hello,
I am having a bit of trouble with SSIS Configurations.
- In BIDS, I have added a configuration file and specified the properties I want to expose.
- When I build the project, I get the standard bindeployment folder which contains the package file (.dtsx), the configuration file (.dtsconfig) and the deploymentmanifest.
- Before deploying the package, I edit the config file to have the settings I want it to for the environment I am deploying to.
- The package deploys OK
- When I work directly on the SSIS server (64 bit), I can go into SQl Mgt Studio, choose 'run package' and when I look in the connection manager window all the settings are as I desire ( I havent had to add a configuration file manually)
- When I work on a client machine, I connect to the SSIS server and choose 'run package' - the properties/connections are the same as on the server but the values themselves are completely different.
Why is this? Why when I run the package from the client (32 bit) do the configuration values appear to be completely different? How can I run the package remotely and pick up the configuration values that I deployed with?
Or have I misunderstood this whole configuration function?
Please, please help!
Mgale1
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Feb 22, 2006
Hi ..
I need some information on the package configuration files. i.e how to set the configuration parameters from outside the packages. Pls provide me some detailed information along with examples. I want to make my packages to read paramaters from the configuration files as we have in .NET(web.config)////
Secondly I want to know how to play well with variables.. i.e setting a variable.. reading a variable.. passing a variable in the SSIS package dataflows and datatasks.. respectively. Please provide some infomation and a good exam[ple on it I need
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Apr 5, 2006
I installed RS2K5 on cluster, modified web.config and rswebapplication.config according to 'Configuring URL settings and View State Validation' in sql2k5 books online. Web browser seems not happy with the change of rswebapplication.config (refer to following error). Anyone has idea why? Thanks.
Server Error in '/Reports' Application.
The configuration file contains an element that is not valid. The ReportServerUrl element is not a configuration file element. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Exception: The configuration file contains an element that is not valid. The ReportServerUrl element is not a configuration file element.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[Exception: The configuration file contains an element that is not valid. The ReportServerUrl element is not a configuration file element.]
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration.ThrowInvalidFormat(String element) +41
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.UIConfiguration.ParseXML(XmlNode node, RSConfiguration configObject) +1135
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration.ParseDocument() +972
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration.Load() +32
[ServerConfigurationErrorException: The report server has encountered a configuration error. See the report server log files for more information.]
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration.Load() +166
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration.Construct(String configFileName) +62
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfiguration..ctor(String configFileName, String location) +296
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RSConfigurationManager..ctor(String configFileName, String configLocation) +134
Microsoft.ReportingServices.UI.Global.get_ConfigurationManager() +84
Microsoft.ReportingServices.UI.Global.get_Configuration() +4
Microsoft.ReportingServices.UI.GlobalApp.Application_AuthenticateRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) +84
System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +92
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +64
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.42
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Jan 22, 2007
Can someone tell me why path to the configuration file couldn't be relative to the package? When I try to use relative path (i.e. do not specify full path to the configuration file) package then run from BIDS looks for configuration file in the solution folder instead of package's folder (project folder).
Is there ane way to force package use same folder to search for caonfiguration files?
Thanks
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Dec 14, 2006
Hi everyone,
How to change dynamically the connection properties for a DTSX?
Imagine that you launch a SSIS and under a several rules the same connection is reused with four or five different databases.
I know that I can attach a configuration file or more than one but how to tell to SSIS which use in every moment?
Thanks in advance and regards,
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Oct 16, 2006
http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/default.aspx has a lot of great tid-bits for SQL 2005. I am currently on a tight deadine for 25 SSIS packages that need to be able to move from Dev to QA to Staging to Prod. For the life of me I cannot get any of the packages to *READ* the config files created with the package config wizard. All I want to do is move the connection string out of the package so we can change the config file and not have to touch (hand edit) each package. Any help is appreciated!
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Oct 25, 2006
I created a project with multiple packages. I created a global config file that all packages reference. I also created a config file for each package that contains the package specific settings. I checked it all into TFS. I went to a different machine and checked it all out. Upon loading a package into the IDE I got the following 3 warnings.Warning loading MT_LSE_PROD_StageLoad.dtsx: The configuration file "MT_LSE_PROD_StageLoad.dtsConfig" cannot be found. Check the directory and file name. e:contentloadersprint1aMT_LSE_PROD_StageLoad.dtsx Warning loading MT_LSE_PROD_StageLoad.dtsx: The configuration file "Environment.dtsConfig" cannot be found. Check the directory and file name. e:contentloadersprint1aMT_LSE_PROD_StageLoad.dtsxWarning loading MT_LSE_PROD_StageLoad.dtsx: Failed to load at least one of the configuration entries for the package. Check configurations entries and previous warnings to see descriptions of which configuration failed. e:contentloadersprint1aMT_LSE_PROD_StageLoad.dtsxAny ideas??? And yes, the files *ARE* there! I tried building the project and it builds. I also tried doing a deployment build and that too built. I am so confused!!!
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Mar 11, 2008
HI
how to access package configuration files of a particular package during runtime.
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Jan 15, 2007
Wondering if I could get some feedback from 'you All' on how you use the Reporting Services configuration files.
Specifically, I'm interested in -
1) Have you ever made changes to the configuration files? (Yes/No; if Yes - how often?)
2) What if any operations you commonly do in the files? (list)
3) Do you script or otherwise have automated solutions for updating these files? (Yes/No; if Yes - in what scenarios; if No - did you try to?)
Any other feedback about the configuration files is also welcome.
Thanks,
-Lukasz
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Jun 23, 2005
Hoping someone can help me out quickly on this.
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Jan 11, 2007
I am hoping someone with more experiencing deploying packages from dev to other environments can help me out here. When developing in BIDS everything works fine. When I deploy I want to use a configuration file. This does seem to work fine by specifying the configuration file on the DTEXEC command. However, if it is specified incorrectly the package STILL executes using the information it was created with. I am attempting to control things like connection strings and passwords via configuration files so that I can take the same package and deploy to different locations and have it run against different sources and destinations. What I am afraid of is that things could easily get screwed up if the configuration file gets moved or renamed, or if the dba that is scheduling the job (outside of sql agent using a different job scheduler on a machine that only has the SSIS service) messes up typing the config file name. Shouldn't it fail if you specify an invalid parameter. Isn't there a way to make it do that? Any help or insight is appreciated. BTW I have used environment variables as well and the issue is the same. If it cannot locate it, it still will execute.
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Nov 7, 2007
Hello,
I have a package and config files created, deployed ssis on server..Now I had to change something, so I saved again package(save all button used) and by click build/rebuild make my config files dissapear from original location, when I run manifest file, it looks for these files and complain they cannot be found.. So in order to get my files back what should I do..?
P.S> I tried to recreate files, save all again and build or rebuild..Doesn't work..Any help..?
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Jul 16, 2007
Hello,
Here is the scenario.
I'm using SSIS and SQL 2005
I have two dtsx packages. Lets call them TESTA.dtsx and TESTB.dtsx. I've enabled using XML package configurations on both.
TestB.dtsx pulls some data from a table and writes it to a flat file.
TestA.dtsx calls TestB.dtsx.
For the test I changed the TestB fileoutput connection string to save to a different location.
When I run TestA.DTSX using DTEXEC. TestB's configuration file is not being used.
How do I kick off TestA.dtsx and specify a package configuration for test b?
I tried manually copying the Config parameters from TESTB's config file to TESTA.
When I run TESTB directly from DTEXEC and pass in it's config file as an argument it runs fine.
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Nov 16, 2006
Hello,
I need some clarification. I am trying to utilize the XML Direct Configuration in my SSIS packages to utilize database connections in the package. I am wanting to utilize this the same way you could use UDLs in the SQL Server 2000 DTS packages.
Currently, I am creating the dtsConfig file and saving it to my desktop. I then modify it with notepad and add the following configuration where it looks like this:
<DTSConfiguration>
<Configuration ConfiguredType="Property" Path="Package.Connections[ConnectionName].Properties[ConnectionString]" ValueType="String">
<ConfiguredValue>Data Source=[ServerName];Initial Catalog=[DBName];Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Auto Translate=False;</ConfiguredValue>
</Configuration>
</DTSConfiguration>
Once this is created, I am trying to "re-use" this in SSIS packages created moving forward, where they all point to this configuration for the same database connection.
What I don't understand is when "Enabling Package Configuration" and then pointing to this dtsConfig file doesn't create a connection in "Connection Manager" NOR does it provide a way to create a blank connection and point to this configuration.
I feel like I am missing something thats so "great" about XML configuration files. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Daniel Lackey
MCSD
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Feb 21, 2007
Hello,
I have several packages that share one configuration file located at a network location. Up until i installed sp2 everything worked fine, but now the packages "loose" the path to the configurationfile. It is replaced by some c:programsqlserverpackage.... path where no config file is located.
I can run packages if i specify the config file explicetly, but I really don't wanna do that, since it will not work in the context i'm working.
I am using the wizard to install my packages.
Anyone with similar problems ? Any help appriciated.
Note: This is not the issue that sp1 solved (for me at least). =)
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Nov 25, 2006
Hi all
For selecting different load targets we use package configurations to override the connection parameters in the connection manager.
To organize the different tasks we splittetd our load processes into multiple package files (dtsx) which are then put together into a workflow using "Execute Package Task" component.
With the option /CONFIGFILE its possible to override the configuration file for the package that is called with DTExec. Unfortuanetly it does not override the configuration of subpackages calles by the "Execute Package Task".
Are there some ways to configure subpackages on the command line?
Thomy
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Oct 18, 2006
I have created an Integration Services package on my development machine. The package contains a configuration file witch let's say is stored in c:projectsMyIntegrationServicesProjectmyConfigfile.dtsConfig (on my dev machine).
Then I have another "Production" machine where I import the SSIS package into an SQL database. I then create an sql-job with only one step, to run my SSIS package. This works fine if I configure the step to be an "SQL Integration services package" and configure it to use my configurationfile.
However I would like to configure this package as a CmdExec step. In the commandline, I specify /CONFIGFILE "d:....myConfigfile.dtsConfig" (the correct path on the prod machine). But it seems to be ignored, because when I execute the package I get an error telling me that the configuretion file c:projectsMyIntegrationServicesProjectmyConfigfile.dtsConfig cannot be found.
What I try to say is, it seems like it ignors the config-file I specify on the command-line and tries to reach the config-file on a location that's probably stored somewhere in the SSIS package from the time it was created on my development machine.
Is there a way around this?
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Jan 11, 2007
Hi All
€™m just starting out with SSIS and am trying to establish architecture standards that are sound and workable. We will be developing BI solutions for customers who use our banking and finance package that runs on an IBM System i. Modularity is important as all our BI solutions will have a combination of re-used functionality along with varying degrees of unique functionality for each customer. My current area of interest is in externalizing all environmental factors and ensuring such things as passwords are protected.
I understand how configuration files work and how to use environment variables to provide a layer of indirection to them. At this stage we want to avoid encryption of packages and plan to use file system based deployment. We plan to use windows security for SQL server so I have no issue in exposing connection info here but for our DB2 connections we need to include user id and passwords. As I understand it, configuration files can not be encrypted so how do I store this externally while preserving its security. Nothing I have read so far has given me exactly what I need.
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Nov 13, 2007
I have deployed to production a number of nested packages (parent packages that call child packages) to the SQL msdb via the Save As option rather than building a deployment utility. These packages reference configuration files in a static location off of the c: drive on the production server. In the development environment, when connection changes are made and I run the Reload with Upgrade option the connection manager takes on the new server and user id settings. However, out on the production side I get the following error from the SQL job log:
Cannot load the XML configuration file. The XML configuration file may be malformed or not valid.
As a result the SQL job uses the default connection information which references the development database rather than the production database. I did research the error but found no good solutions. Is there a way to ensure the configuration files are formed correctly and that the packages are correctly referencing the configuration files? We are trying to run the ETL updates via a SQL job.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
T
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Jul 17, 2014
I nabbed a couple from some recent installs I did, and, assuming I can get my SAN guy to always give drives the same letter assignment, it looks fairly useful.
There's still a bunch of additional stuff to do, like turn on instant file initialization, size/create additional tempdb files, and set up alerts and database mail, etc.
Can the configuration file be expanded to handle any of that? Do you use something else to template/automate your SQL installs? The more I do it, the less I want to keep doing it.
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May 17, 2007
Hello All,
I have a package in which I have enabled "Package Configuration".
When I run the package i am sure that it reads the configuration file and executes the package correctly.
However if I remove the configuration file, the package still executes correctly with the settings which were used at the time of development.
I have event handlers for OnError and OnWarning and both these are NOT invoked.
IMO, this is incorrect behavior because if a package has been configured for "package configuration, then we should atleast have a warning generated that SSIS did not find the configuration and it would execute the package with hard coded values (from the time of development).
Is there any work around for this? how can I make SSIS warn me if the config file is missing for a package which was configured for package configuration?
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Sep 10, 2007
I have RAID 5 with 1 logical drive with 2 partitions with SQL Server 2000 running on SERVER.
what best model for data storage and backup would some experienced one suggest:
basically I want to put Master, Database files and T-Log files away from each other.
-- Data files
-- Log files
-- Master database.
Thanks,
Fahim.
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Aug 10, 2007
How do you go about setting up configuration files to control connection strings when SSIS packages are migrated from a test environment to a production environment? Specifically, changing the server you are connecting to and possibly different login and password.
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Sep 22, 2007
I am getting following error when trying to install SQL express 2005 on XPSP2.
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup
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The SQL Server System Configuration Checker cannot be executed due to WMI configuration on the machine SIGMA-805539A79 Error:2147944122 (0x800706ba).
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.06&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=70342
I tied re-installing WMI using http://blogs.msdn.com/jpapiez/archive/2004/12/09/279041.aspx link but could not get it working.
Do i need IIS installed? Its not installed on this box...
please suggest something... i am stuck...
Thanks,
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May 2, 2007
I have just finished installing SQL 2005 Ent Edition on Win 2000 Adv Server, SQL2005 SP2, and SP2 Hotfix KB934458. After the installation, I could see and configure all services via SQL Configuration Manager and SQL Server Surface Area Configuration tools. This worked for a couple of days and now both configuration tools no longer detect SQL2005 components. SQL Server Surface Area Configuration issued an error that said "No SQL Server 2005 components were found on specified computer. Either no components are installed, or you are not an administrator on this computer. (SQLAC)". SQL Configuration Manager did not list any installed services. I don€™t know what caused this. Anyone has any idea? Please help! Below is the Installation Report which shows installed components.
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The following components are installed on this server
DEV
Analysis Services
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Database Engine
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Reporting Services
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
QA
Analysis Services
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Database Engine
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Common components
Integration Services
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Notification Services
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Workstation Components
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
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