October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
238 pages
5h 17m
English
Content preview from What's New in SQL Server 2012
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Color coded and indicator status codes
One small but welcome improvement to SSIS 2012 has been a change in the way that status information about a component is displayed when running a package.
As shown in the following screenshot, the visual indicator is still in color, but also gives a non-color based indicator (a tick or a cross) of the state of the task after running:
This is good news for those of us who are both developers and red-green color blind (around 7 to 10 percent of the male population, < 0.5 percent of the female population). Furthermore, it is useful when printing a black and white screenshot of a running package for documentation ...