January 2006
Beginner to intermediate
720 pages
19h 26m
English
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Professional SQL Server™ 2005 Integration Services
by Brian Knight, Allan Mitchell, Darren Green, Douglas Hinson, Kathi Kellenberger, Andy Leonard, Erik Veerman, Jason Gerard, Haidong Ji, Mike Murphy
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4.1. Containers
Containers are objects that help SSIS provide structure to one or more tasks. They can help you loop through a set of tasks until a criterion has been met or can help you group a set of tasks logically. Containers can also be nested, containing other containers. Containers are set in the Control Flow tab in the Package Designer. There are four types of containers in the Control Flow tab: Task Host, Sequence, For Loop, and Foreach containers.
4.1.1. Task Host Containers
The task host container is the default container that single tasks fall into. You'll notice that this type of container is not in the Toolbox in Visual Studio. In fact, even if you don't specify a container for a task, it will be placed in a task host container. The SSIS architecture extends variables and event handlers to the task through the task host container.
4.1.2. Sequence Containers
Sequence containers handle the flow of a subset of a package and can help you divide a package into smaller, more-manageable pieces. Some nice applications that you can use sequence containers for include the following:
Grouping tasks so that you can disable a part of the package that's no longer needed
Narrowing the scope of the variable to a container
Managing the properties of multiple tasks in one step by setting the properties of the container
Using one method to ensure that multiple tasks have to execute successfully before the next task executes
Sequence containers show up like any other task in your Control ...
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