SSIS - Data Sources - Configure For Deployment?
Jan 26, 2006
I had posted this in the following pre-existing thread :
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=89737&SiteID=1
Also wanted to start a thread on this to see if I can get some suggestions. Any suggestions on how to do this are appreciated.
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Books-Online quote:
>> In Integration Services, data sources are design-time objects that you use when you build packages in SSIS Designer.
This is indeed the case but why? I would like to see it changed or provide some way of including the data source in some kind of a "solution/project configuration", the same way one can create a "package configuration" right now.
If one can build a project, and create a deployment utility to deploy the entire project (all packages), it is incoceivable why one shouldn't be able to set configurations at a "project" level.
Right now I am having to create package configurations to configure my connection setting for dev/test/prod etc environments. But the trouble is, if I have 10 packages each involving 3 connections in my project, I have only 3 data sources in my project, but come deployment time, I'm having to create 10 package configurations, and set my ConnectionString (which is different for dev/test/prod etc) 30 times during deployment.
If there is a better way to do it, I would like to know. Otherwise, this is what I would like to see in the next SP.
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thanks,
RV
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Jan 10, 2008
I want to configure a Data Source and then Deploy the Data Source and Data Source view along with several packages that use connection managers based on the Data Source/Data Source Views.
Can someone explain this process?
Thanks,
Michael
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Aug 9, 2005
I notice that when deploying a package that uses data sources behind its connection managers, the deployed package has the connection string built within the package that gets deployed.
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Mar 2, 2015
We have an SSAS project that we want to auto deploy. I am not sure how to handle the external data sources in the project. This one in particular has a single external data source defined to Microsoft SQL Server.
I would like to be able to change the data source based on the environment. In SSIS projects I can do this by setting up environments in the SSISDB and linking them to project parameters in the SSIS project but SSAS projects don't seem to have a similar mechanism.
How to handle this? I would like to be able to have the build/deployment agent pass in server / database information to the data source based on environment (dev, QA, production).
The only way to automate this that I've discovered is to have an intermediary process that executes after the build that updates the generated .asdatabase and .configsettings files in the bin folder replacing the connection string information.
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May 10, 2006
I am attempting to use the foreach loop structure in an SSIS package toloop through however many Excel files are placed in a directory andthen perform an import operation into a SQL table on each of thesefiles sequentially. The closest model for this that I was able to findin the MS tutorial used a flat file source rather than Excel. Thatinvolved adding a new expression to the Connection Manager that set theconnection string to the current filename, as provided by the foreachcomponent. That works just fine, but when I attempt to apply the samemethod to an Excel source, rather than a flat file source, I cannot getit to work. I see the following error associated with the Excel sourceon the Data Flow page: "Validation error. Data Flow Task: Excel Source[1]: The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "ExcelConnection Manager 1" failed with error code 0xC020200." I think thatit's just a matter of getting the right expression, and I thought thatperhaps I should be constructing an expression for ExcelFilePath ratherthan the Connection String, but I have fiddled with it for hours andhaven't come up with something that will be accepted. Has anybody outthere been able to do this, or can perhaps refer me to somedocumentation that contains an example of what I am trying to do?Thanks for any help you can give.
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Mar 12, 2007
I've encountered a few problems using SSIS against non-SQL Server data
sources and was hoping that others might have some experience. Google
searches and browsing MSDN hasn't led me to a solution, so any advice
on the following is appreciated:
1) When using the "Data Source Views" wizard to add a data source
view from an ODBC data source, only tables appear in the object
listing. Views do not. (I've also observed this with SQL Server 2005
databases as well, but it's a bigger issue when you can't use the native SqlClient, as is the case for many ODBC-only databases.) ODBC traces show that both table and
view metadata is being returned to SSIS correctly, so it appears as
though SSIS is filtering out views from the object listing in the
wizard.
2) When creating named queries against (non-SQL Server) ODBC data
sources, SSIS appears to use the SQL Server SQL syntax for referencing
schemas/objects (e.g. "SELECT * FROM [schema].[table]", rather than
"SELECT * FROM schema.table"). This isn't valid SQL in many databases.
Am I missing something? Is there a way to change this through some
configuration setting?
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Oct 2, 2006
Hi:
I am new to SSIS. I would like to know if I want to transfer data from one Oracle schema to another Oracle schema and also to do scheduling of the packages, can I still use SSIS? If yes, what are the components that need to be installed on the database server and the development environment? I hope I don't need the full SQL Server database installation in order to use SSIS.
Thanks!
MuiSukYuen
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Currently, I am using T-SQL to combine some data and using an ISNULL function like this:
,ISNULL(H.Last_Name, S.PatientLastName)
,ISNULL(H.First_Name, S.PatientFirstName)
I am wanting to change from using a query to move this data to using an SSIS Data Flow. I am familiar with using Merge Join to combine the two tables (H & S in this case), but I'm not sure where I can use the ISNULL in the manner described above. Is there a way to do it in the Merge Join? Do I have to do it after the Merge Join?
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Feb 7, 2008
Hi I've not done much work on reporting services before.
I've made a change on my page and i can see the change on the preview its just a drop down list containing the week number.
But i can see to get to deploy these changes when i build my package it builds fine but when i go to deploy it am getting this error message
The item '/Data sources' already exist
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Apr 2, 2006
Hi,
I have the following scenario: N identical Databases (corresponding to different Fiscal Years, with names <Company Name>.<YEAR>). We want to consolidate the N DBs to a New Datawarehouse.
In SSIS we have designed a Dataflow that reads through a OLE DB Source (Connected to one of the N Databases) and maps to a OLE DB Destination (Connected to the NEW DB).
The question is, how we loop in SSIS through the N identical Connections, so to repeatedly execute the designed Dataflow, each time with a different Connection?
Thanks in Advance,
--Dimitris Doukas
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Oct 30, 2007
Hi,
I'm trying to replicate a SQL join across two seperate data sources in SSIS. If I were to write SQL to do this, it would be as follows:
SELECT Costs.CostRateEntryId,
Costs.UserId,
Costs.HourlyRate * 8 AS DailyCostRate,
Dates.DateKey,
Dates.ActualDate,
FROM Costs
INNER JOIN Dates ON Dates.ActualDate >= Costs.EffectiveDate AND Dates.ActualDate <= Costs.EndDate
Unfortunately, as the tables 'Dates' and 'Costs' are in two seperate SQL2005 systems, I can't really do this. I was hoping that it could be achieved in SSIS, but I cant seem to find any way that I can do a join that's <= or >=.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Jeremy
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Dec 30, 2005
I'm just beginning to use SSIS (bracing for a steep learning curve due to lack of helpful documentation) and am starting out trying use the Import and Export Wizard. On the "Choose a Data Source" page there is a dropdown for the Data Source. I see a list of possible data providers, but not one of "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC drivers," which is the one I wanted to use because I'm trying to connect to an obscure database. So I figured that I need to use ".Net Framework Data Provider for Odbc." Unfortunately, regardless of what I enter for the Connection string or the Dsn or the Driver I invariably get an error, although it's somewhat dependent on that I have entered for those three items.
Either this (when I type in a DSN)
Cannot get the supported data types from the database connection "Dsn=Terrascan_Okanogan_WA".
or this (if I enter a full connection string and a driver)
The operation could not be completed.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
ERROR [IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified
of this (if I enter a DSN and a driver)
Cannot get the supported data types from the database connection "Dsn=Terrascan_Okanogan_WA;Driver={SmartWare Driver}".
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Specified cast is not valid. (System.Data)
So I have a couple questions. First, why doesn't "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC drivers" appear in the list of data sources, and secondly, when using the ".Net Framework Data Provider for Odbc" data source what inputs are expected because whatever I'm doing doesn't seem to work?
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Jul 9, 2007
Hi guys,
I manage to get the SSIS working. Now I would need to do these tasks.
I first want to get data from 2 different sql servers. What would be the best method to accomplish this? Both are in Sql Server 2005.
Secondly I want to make sure if any of the servers couldn't be found on the network or in any case the getting data task failed for any one of them the package won't continue and an email should be send to an email address.
Thirdly If everything is ok then I should combine both and generate one sequence no for them and save them on to another location and then generate a file with modified values.
Can anyone help me regarding these tasks?
Thank you
Gemma
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Jun 10, 2014
script in SSIS to check data connections/sources and send an email if it fails validation. I found this script online, but I'm not real good with scripting and only VB scripting at that.How can I modify this script or is there another one here that will do what I need. The data connection in question links to Salesforce and will fail validation if the password/security token is invalid.
The reason I need this script is that we have no control over the password changes and need to know if the salesforce team changes the password without informing us.
/* The Script Task allows you to perform virtually any operation that can be accomplished in
* a .Net application within the context of an Integration Services control flow.
*
* Expand the other regions which have "Help" prefixes for examples of specific ways to use
* Integration Services features within this script task. */
#endregion
#region Namespaces
using System;
[code]...
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Jul 26, 2006
I€™m interested in reading about best practices or
recommended deployments for MS SQL 2005.
Currently our company owns 8 x SQL 2005 Enterprise Processor licenses. We have 4 HP DL380€™s with the following
configurations:
6GB RAM
Mirrored
72GB drives for OS (Windows 2003 Ent R2)
4TB Shared
storage (SAN) (15K Fiber Channel)
Dual 3.6GHz
Processors
We would like to create a highly available data
warehouse. We considered running the
SQL engine on one set of servers (Cluster 1) and running the reporting, analysis,
browser, etc., services on the other set of servers (Cluster 2).
Is this possible with MS SQL 2005?
How do we install and link all the servers together?
Is this a poor design?
With the above hardware and software, what would be the best
deployment for availability, distributed processing, speed, and reliability and scalability?
Thank you.
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Sep 29, 2006
Hi,
We currently have a test and development environment for our data warehouse which is using SSIS packages to build (SSIS packages call stored procedures). We have multiple connections accross the different packages. The problem that we are having is when we deploy the packages to the development environment, the connection strings in the packages are still pointing to the live server! Hence, when we run these packages in the test environment, they actually execute the stored procedures in our live server.
I have tried to use package configurations and the deployment utility to assist us in this regard but have still come up with a few problems:
- When running the deployment utility, I still have to go and manually type in the data source the connection string must use - Is there maybe a way to use some sort of a variable that will automatically set this dependant on the name of the server that you are deploying to?
-It seems, even when I deploy to my live server, if I change the data source to point to my live server, it goes and changes the data source for the packages on my test server to point to the live servesr as well/
Basically, what I would like at the end of the day is to just be able to select the server the packages must be deployed to, and the connesction strings must be set automatically to either the test or live server dependong on which one I deploy to. Anyone know if this is possible?
Thanks in advance
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Aug 15, 2007
Hi,
Please can you let me know which of the following 2 is a better method to deploy SSIS packages
File System deplyment OR SQL Server deployment
What are the advantages of one over the other?
Thanks,
Mrinali
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Jun 7, 2006
I need to periodically import a (HUGE) table of data from an external data source (not SQL Server) into SQL Server, with the following scenarios:
Some of the records in the external data source may not exist in SQL.Some of the records in the external data source may have a different value at different imports, but this records are identified univocally by the same primary key in the external datasource and in SQL Server.Some of the records in the external data source may be the same in SQL.
Due to the massive volume of the import, I would like to import only the records which are different from what I have in SQL Server (cases 1 and 2 above). In fact case 2 is the most critical.
I thought of making a query with a left outer join between the data in the external data source table (SOURCE) and the data in the SQL Server table (DESTIN). The join is done on the respective primary keys (composed keys of up to 10 columns) and one of the WHERE conditions will be that the value in SOURCE is different from the value in DESTIN.
The result of this query would be exactly what I need to import.
How to do this in SSIS??? I couldn't figure out how to join tables in different data sources yet.
In fact I cannot write a stored procedure to do that, since one of the sources is in a datasources not SQL Server.
I have seen the Lookup transformation in this article http://www.sqlis.com/default.aspx?311 but this is not exacltly what I want to do.
Another possibility is to use the merge join, but due to the sorting I believe its performances would be terrible!
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
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Jun 27, 2007
I would like to develop a SSIS package where in there are 'X' number of input data sources like flat files, MS Access mdb files etc. The details about the number of input data sources, type of each data sources, the physical path of the data file, name os database server, username for the database server, password for the database server etc has to come from the configuration file.
Can anyone help on this ?
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Aug 4, 2006
Hi,
I am pretty new to SSIS. I am trying to create a package which can accept data in any of several formats. i.e. CSV, Excel, a SQL Server database/table and import the data into my destination database.
So far i've managed to get this working OK. However I am now TOTALLY stuck. I'm currently trying to just concentrate on the data sources being a CSV (using a Flat File Data Source) and/or an Excel Spreadsheet.
I can get the data in and to my destination using a UNION ALL component and mapping the data sources to it so long as both the CSV file and the Excel spreadsheet exist.
My problem is that I need my package to handle the possibility that only the CSV file might exist and there is no Excel spreadsheet. In which case i'd like the package to ignore the Excel datasource completely. Currently either of my data sources do not exist I get errors and the package terminates.
Is there any way in SSIS that I can check all my data sources to see which ones exist (i.e. are valid). If they exist I want to use them. If it doesn't exist i'd like to disgard it (without error - as long as there is a single datasource the package should run)
I've tried using the AcquireConnection method in a script task on each of my connections, hoping that it would error if the file/datasource did not exist. It doesn't though (in the case of an Excel datasource it just creates a empty excel file for me).
The only other option I can come up with are to have seperate packages depending on the type of data we want to import and then run a particular package depending on the format of the source data. This seems a bit long winded. I am pretty sure I must be able to do what I want to achieve but I can't work out how.
I'll be grateful to anyone who can send me any tips/hints/links on how I can achieve this.
Many thanks
Rob Gibson
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Hi, i'm wondering which is the best way to search data in a SQL Server.
I reach data using Data Sources and Data Views and also with OLE DB Source with a Data access mode: Named query.
I have to write the data into a Flat File. So, does any one knows which is the best practice for this? Or any one of the two are good choices?
Thanks for your help.
Beli
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Jan 9, 2007
Hi,
In my project i want a report. In that report data is getting from more than one data sources(systems). While creating data source view i used named query for both primary and secondary data source. But at the time of crating "Report Model" i am getting below error.
An error occurred while executing a command.
Message: Invalid object name 'Table2'.
Command:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT SerialNum, ModelNum AS com_model
FROM Table2) t
Is there any way to create a report with multiple data sources?
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Mar 19, 2007
Hi all :)
I'm wondering if SSIS will be the solution to the problem I'm working on.
Some of our customers give us an Excel sheet with data they want to insert or update in the database.
I've created a package that will take an Excel sheet, do some data conversion so the data types match up and after that I use a Slowly Changing Data component to create the insert/update commands.
This works great. If a customer adds a new row to the Excel sheet or updates an existing row changes are nicely reflected in the database.
But now I€™ve got the following problem. The column names and the order of the columns in the Excel sheet are not standard and in the future it could happen a customer doesn't even use an Excel sheet but something totally different.
Can I use SSIS for this? Is it possible to let the user set the mappings trough some sort of user interface? I€™ve looked at programmatically creating the package but I€™ve got to say that€™s quit hard to do€¦ It would be easier to write the whole thing myself than to create the package trough code ;)
If not I thought about transforming the data in code before I pass it on to the SSIS package in something like XML. That way I can use standard column names and data types.
So how should I solve this problem? Use SSIS or not?
Thnx :)
Wouter de Kort
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Feb 21, 2008
Hi i have data on a Server in a different database which i like to access from within my ssis job.
I just need to look up information from one table on this database so i can references it. Is there a way of doing this is SSIS. Rather then me having to load the data from one database to another as the data may change.
i tried having 2 sources of data feed into a look up but that does not work..
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Apr 1, 2008
Hi there,
On my home page I have several different folders to reports which require different data sources. the problem is that within these folders there are multiple copies of the same datasource. is it possible to store all of the datasources in one folder, one location? it would certainly be easier when changes to usernames and passwords need to be modified!
Thanks,
Rhonda
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Apr 4, 2008
I searched and read about Data Sources and I'm seeing that there is no advantage in using it, which is what I found from playing around with it.
I expected that you would set a global connection in Data Sources and somehow link this to the things in your Connection Manager, giving you one place to switch from one environment to another. But reading the discussions here and playing around with it, this is not the case.
So, why is it there?
Next question.... another thing I gathered so far is something called "Configurations" that will do what I was describing above. Where do I do this?
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Jun 28, 2007
Hi,
how can i use var for Data Sources ,
my project have to be suitable for the QA system and the production system and i want to connect them by var or something else.
if you have another idea about this subject i'll happy to read.
thanks,
gil.
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I'm trying to combine two reports I've created into a form letter. The goal is to have a letter that indicates the students maximum UBSCT score for Math, Reading and Writing. Also in the letter we want to include the student's total number of credits awarded and overall GPA. I not sure if I need to try and combined the two queries or use two different data sources in Reporting Services. I've tried creating one sql statement but the grouping are giving me fits. I fairly new to Reporting Services.
Report 1:
704 Dixie High 11 311880 Student_1 UBSCT Math 176
704 Dixie High 11 311880 Student_1 UBSCT Reading 182
704 Dixie High 11 311880 Student_1 UBSCT Writing 173
704 Dixie High 11 311881 Student_2 UBSCT Math 168
704 Dixie High 11 311881 Student_2 UBSCT Reading 172
704 Dixie High 11 311881 Student_2 UBSCT Writing 165
SELECT
track.schoolc as School_Code,
school.schname as School,
stustat.graden as Grade,
studemo.ident as Ident,
RTRIM(studemo.lastname) + ', ' + RTRIM(studemo.firstname) AS [Student],
stutscors1.testc as Test_Code,
left(zsubtest1.descript,20) as [Subject],
max(stutscors1.testscore) as Score
FROM
stutscors1 INNER JOIN
stutests1 ON stutscors1.ststuniq = stutests1.ststuniq INNER JOIN
studemo ON stutests1.suniq = studemo.suniq INNER JOIN
stustat ON studemo.stuuniq = stustat.stuuniq INNER JOIN
track ON stustat.trkuniq = track.trkuniq INNER JOIN
school ON track.schoolc = school.schoolc INNER JOIN
testdef1 ON stutests1.testuniq = testdef1.testuniq INNER JOIN
zsubtest1 ON stutscors1.subtestc = zsubtest1.subtestc and stutscors1.testc = zsubtest1.testc
WHERE
stutscors1.testscore <> ' ' and
stutscors1.testscore <> '0' and
school.schname = 'Dixie High'and
stutscors1.testc = 'UBSCT' and
stustat.graden = 11
GROUP BY
track.schoolc,
school.schname,
studemo.ident,
RTRIM(studemo.lastname) + ', ' + RTRIM(studemo.firstname),
stustat.graden,
stutscors1.testc,
zsubtest1.descript
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Report 2:
704 Dixie High 11 Student_1 311880 23.2500 23.2500 87.50300000 3.763569
704 Dixie High 11 Student_2 311881 20.2500 20.2500 76.84300000 3.794716
select
stugrp_active.schoolc as School_Code,
school.schname as School,
stugrp_active.graden as Grade,
rtrim(stugrp_active.lastname) + ', ' + rtrim(stugrp_active.firstname) as Student,
trnscrpt.suniq as Ident,
sum(trnscrpt.gpacratt) as CreditAtt,
sum(trnscrpt.gradcrawd) as CreditAwd,
round(sum(case when Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt is null then 0 else Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt end * gpamarks.gpavallvl0),3) AS TrmGpaPts,
(round(sum(case when Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt is null then 0 else Trnscrpt.GpaCrAtt end * gpamarks.gpavallvl0),3))/(sum(trnscrpt.gradcrawd)) as GPA
from
dbo.trnscrpt
inner join dbo.stugrp_active on (trnscrpt.suniq = stugrp_active.suniq) INNER JOIN school ON stugrp_active.schoolc = school.schoolc INNER JOIN
gpamarks ON trnscrpt.marksetc1 = gpamarks.marksetc AND trnscrpt.markawd1 = gpamarks.mark
where
school.schname = 'Dixie High' and
stugrp_active.graden = 11 and
trnscrpt.graden >= 9
group by
stugrp_active.schoolc,
school.schname,
stugrp_active.graden,
rtrim(stugrp_active.lastname) + ', ' + rtrim(stugrp_active.firstname),
trnscrpt.suniq
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Mar 19, 2007
Hi there
I am fairly new to SSIS, I got my package running fine in my development environment with the connection managers (connecting to 3 databases on the same server, with username and password, not Integrated security) and all.
The problem comes in when i want to deploy my package or execute it outside of the development environment.
When I execute the .dtsx file in my project it brings up the Execute Package Utility and I just click Execute, thinking it should work, but not, any ideas??
So I read some of the forums and got looking into the configuration file, suppose that it does not carry the connection manager settings thru, but dam that still doesn't work for me?
The whole idea is that I will be executing the package from my C# code, so does my package have to be just on the server in a folder or does it have to be installed in the db? which is best??
Hope anyone can help me!!
Thanks
Jamie
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Sep 13, 2007
Is there a way that would allow me to deploy ssis for end user in a given file, where the end user simply clicks some icon that will tiger the ssis deployment process?
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Oct 19, 2007
Hi All,
I am able to execute my ssis package from BID environment using SQL Server Authentication. However, when I deploy the package on SQL Serve 2005 using Windows Authentication, the package fails. The package is a simple one, it read two servers, truncate tables and load the data on the destination server.
I am not sure why this fails when I execute the package on the server environment, but works fine when I run it from BID.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Mar 11, 2008
Hi
I am looking at deploying some ssis package's as files, my question can I install just integreation services on on server to run the packages or do I need the full installation of sql server 2005
Bimal
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Jun 1, 2006
Hi,
I would like to deploy my SSIS Package in my web server rather than Database Server. So anyone please give me some suggestion to implement this.
Also I wanted to know whether I should have a SQL Server instance in the server where I am deploying my SSIS package?
Its pretty urgent. Help please.
Thanks & Regards,
Prakash Srinivasan.
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