I recently made this video to explain what I call “broken references” in the SSIS Catalog. In the video, I create and test a broken reference, and then demonstrate how SSIS Catalog Browser (and SSIS Catalog Compare) visualize broken references. Enjoy! What is a Broken Reference? It may help to define reference first. An SSIS …
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Category:SSIS Catalog Compare
SSIS Catalog Browser v0.9.12.0
When I tinker with SSIS Catalog Compare, SSIS Catalog Browser is affected. SSIS Catalog Browser is free, SSIS Catalog Compare is not free. I recently used SSIS Catalog Compare on a consulting engagement to migrate contents of an SSIS Catalog from one server to another. During the migration, I found references were not processed as …
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DevOps for SSIS with SSIS Catalog Compare
In this video, I demonstrate tools for managing SSIS in the Data Integration Lifecycle. Learn more at about SSIS Catalog Compare at DILM Suite. Enjoy!
SSIS Catalog Compare – More Than Lift and Shift
Would you like to learn more about Data Integration Lifecycle Management (DILM) or DevOps for SSIS? Enjoy this short video describing SSIS Catalog Compare‘s comparing, scripting, and deployment support for SSIS Catalog artifacts: To learn more, contact us.
Wrapping Up 2020
It’s that time of year again; that time when bloggers and others share their thoughts about the year that was and the year to come. “2020 was ____.” I complete this sentence three ways, listed below. Feel free to add your thoughts in the comments. “Different” …is the first word that leaps to mind. The …
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Azure DevOps, Git, and SSIS
After a couple false starts, I was able to live-stream one way to use Azure DevOps with Git to source-control the contents of an SSIS Catalog folder – including SSIS Catalog Folder, Projects, Packages, Environments, Environment Variables, Configured Literals, References, and Reference Mappings. In the video, I create an Azure DevOps project configured to use …
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AWS and SSIS
Brent Ozar, my friend and brother from another mother, shared an interesting link on LinkedIn. The article Brent linked is titled Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the Business Intelligence Suite on SQL Server 2019. I find the topic interesting for a number of reasons. I’m interested in helping enterprises lift and shift on-premises …
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How to Promote SSIS Code in the Enterprise Lifecycle
I’ve written about Data Integration Lifecycle Management (DILM) tiers. To summarize, every enterprise needs at least four lifecycle management tiers: 1. Development – an environment in which developers have sysadmin privileges. 2. Test – another environment in which developers have sysadmin privileges. 4. Production – managed by production operations such as domain administrators, system administrators, …
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The SSIS Catalog and SCCPAC Files
The SSIS Catalog is a pretty cool SSIS framework, whether installed on-premises or in the cloud (Azure-SSIS). Practicing lifecycle management with the SSIS Catalog can be… challenging. Try scripting an existing SSIS Catalog Environment after creation, for example: The result? Sad trombone… SCCPAC Files to the Rescue! SSIS Catalog Compare Enterprise Edition includes SCCPAC file …
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Source-Control SSIS Catalog Contents in Azure DevOps
I did a thing – actually a couple things – that I’ve been dreaming about for a while. In a couple recent blog posts – SSIS Catalog Compare Enterprise Generates SCCPAC Files and Azure DevOps, Software Development, and Git Part 4 – Command-Line with Azure DevOps – I walked through one way to source-control the …
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