Troubleshooting Integration Services Packages

As mentioned earlier, during package development, you might have seen various alerts and warnings appear on the screen. For example, when you drop the Execute SQL task on the Control Flow surface, you see a crossed red glyph on the task indicating “No connection manager is specified”. These validation alerts are available by default in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). Some features are available in Integration Services by default, so you don’t need to set any configurations; other debugging features, such as breakpoints and logging, must be configured and you must interpret the results. You can broadly lump features into two categories:

  • Debugging features that are available by default. ...

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