This post is a follow-up to my recent post titled Promoting SSIS Catalog Objects Between Lifecycle Management Tiers. DILM Deployment Utility is a great way to encapsulate SSIS Catalog folders as code in sccpac files. Drop the files in a git repo, add, commit, and push, and viola, scripts for your SSIS Catalog folder(s) and …
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Promoting SSIS Catalog Objects Between Lifecycle Management Tiers
Code promotion is essential to DevOps. One problem solved by SSIS Catalog Compare is code promotion via scripting between Development, Test, Pre-Production, and Production lifecycle management tiers*. In the video, I demonstrate: One gap (scripting all SSIS objects stored in the SSIS Catalog) in SSIS management tools shipped with SSMS. One way SSIS Catalog Compare …
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Using DILM Deployment Utility to Restore SSIS Catalog Folders
In this video, I demonstrate using DILM Deployment Utility 2022 – part of SSIS Catalog Compare 2022 Enterprise Edition – to restore the contents of an SSIS Catalog folder in a disaster recovery scenario. Question? Want to learn more? Please contact me. Enjoy! :{>
SSIS Framework Manager Updated
I am so excited to announce scripting in SSIS Framework Manager – a new component of the Data Integration Lifecycle Management Suite – is code complete! My first-pass testing worked really well, so I decided to go live on LinkedIn Live and demonstrate it. I practiced a few test-walk-throughs and it all worked. As is …
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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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How I Build an SSIS Test Virtual Machine
I use VirtualBox for my hypervisor engine. I started using it years ago when it was the first free hypervisor I found that supported 64-bit guests. In this post I share some thoughts about testing SSIS using a test virtual machine (VM). There are other awesome hypervisor platforms out there. In setting up a virtual …
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Two Recordings Available: SSIS Catalog and SSIS Lifecycle
Andy Leonard shares two recordings about using the SSIS Catalog to manage enterprise data engineering.
You Might Need an SSIS Framework
You might need an SSIS framework. “How can I tell if I need an SSIS framework, Andy?” I’m glad you asked. Does your enterprise: Practice DevOps? Execute lots of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages? Execute SSIS packages several times per day? Execute “SSIS in the Cloud” using the Azure Data Factory version 2 Integration …
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On Output…
I’m going to be a little bold in this post and suggest if you are developing for SQL Server, the screenshot to the left and above shows something that is, well, wrong. I can hear you thinking, “What’s Wrong With That Output, Andy?” I’m glad you asked. I will answer with a question: What just …
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Coming Soon: SSIS Catalog Compare Updates
I spent a lot of time this year writing and managing a book project. I will blog about that later, I promise. While I enjoy writing it really cuts into my play time. What do I do when I play? I write software. This weekend I cracked open the code for SSIS Catalog Compare and …
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