I was wondering if doing operations such as changing var in a SSIS editing the xml code, rather than the cumbersome var rename/replacing in bids, if was possible to force to rebuild all the SCR task scripts that are actually using the vars. I noticed that the built version of the Tasks stored in the package are not updated so I need to open and close each of them to rebuild the tasks using the changes. Is there any option to force to rebuild all of them ?
Mario
Unfortunately, there's nothing built into SSIS to automatically rebuild Script Components or Transformations.
However, there are third party tools that offer that functionality. My shop is currently using Pragmatic Works' BIxPress. I've found it very helpful, although not cheap; see their website for details.
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I just added error handling functionality to an SSIS package that I am upgrading, and I need to add this same error handling to about 30 more packages. Is there a way to extract the error handling control flow, parameters, variables, etc. so that I can easily add them to the rest of the packages?
I am using Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 and SSIS 15.0.
I found a bunch of articles on BIML, but it looks like that is only for creating new packages. I am aware that copy and paste exists, but I would like to try to find a solution that is easy to apply across future packages as well as the current packages being updated. Apologies if this question has already been asked, I searched, but I'm not sure that I even really know what search terms would be applicable.
Yes, Biml is an excellent choice for creating consistent packages going forward. Even if you're only generating empty packages with error handling logic, that's a pattern and that's the power of Biml.
With the change to BimlExpress and the now free ability to reverse engineer packages, an approach could be to reverse engineer the packages to Biml. That would all be static tier but you'll need to select all and then in a new BimlScript file, add the error handling like so
<#
foreach(AstPackageNode apn in this.RootNode.Packages)
{
if (!apn.Events.Where(x => x.EventType==EventType.OnError).Any())
{
AstTaskEventHandlerNode onError = new AstTaskEventHandlerNode(null);
onError.EventType = EventType.OnError;
onError.Name = "OnError";
// TODO: add tasks and such
apn.Events.Add(onError);
}
//WriteLine(apn.GetBiml());
}
#>
Once that's looking good, you right click on everything at once and generate packages.
A non-Biml approach is going to test your C# (or VB.NET) skills. I've not touched this type of SSIS dev in more than a decade but the concept will remain the same. https://billfellows.blogspot.com/2016/10/what-packages-still-use-configuration.html
You'll need to find all the SSIS packages. For each one of those, use a reference to the DTS Runtime application to load it. Then look at the package's Events collection and if there isn't an OnError, you're going to have to add one to the collection and then add all the associated tasks, configure them and then save.
GravCMS has it's own asset manager: https://learn.getgrav.org/themes/asset-manager
It can minify, concatenate js/scss files.
Is it better to do such tasks via gulp (gulp-sass, gulp-concat, gulp-uglify), rather than using built-in asset manager in Grav?
Well I don't have any experience with the grav asset manager. But since you want to do grav-related tasks, I'd recommend to use the built in manager, as long as it can cover all your needs.
I don't see any benefit of using and adding an extra dependency in gulp/grunt or any other build tool.
The only time I'd consider using gulp is, if you already have an existing project with a gulp configuration and you can re-use it and have complex logic.
However probably you just want to minify/concatenate files. So the built in asset manager is the way to go
We have noticed an issue recently that redeployed SSIS packages sometime don't seem to include the latest changes... When I search the dtsx using notepad I see the amended script in the code so the changes are definitely there.
My assumption was that script components of SSIS packages are eventually compiled into an assembly somewhere in the process - this is quite likely since I would imagine C# code cannot run without something compiling it first. So in theory if these assemblies would then end up being cached and not immediately overwritten (for some reason) that would explain this issue.
The only "evidence" that makes me think that my theory is correct is if I keep running the package at some point it suddenly shifts to the new code.
However, so far I haven't found why and how this is happening, if is... Can anybody help?
UPDATE:
MSDN says: "Unlike earlier versions where you could indicate whether the scripts were precompiled, all scripts are precompiled in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS) and later versions." - If by pre-compiled they mean that instead of the actual package a pre-compiled version runs (I think this because the package itself does not seem to be compiled since the code is visible in Notepad) there must be a way to force the engine to overwrite the pre-compiled assembly... but how?
UPDATE:
One of the four core components of SSIS is the SQL ServerIntegration Services service, which is a windows service. Apparently this service will cache component/task metadata so that the SSIS runtime engine can poll the cache to see what is installed, which may help speed up package load times. However, if the packages are stored in the file system (not in SQL Integration Services) and executed by Agent Jobs, the agent job will use the 64 bit version of DTEXEC to execute the packages. I haven't yet found evidence that any caching would be involved there, but there are certainly options to check a number of parameters in the validation phase of the execution, such as version numbers - may be for a reason.
Have you looked at sysssispackages to compare the version build number of the package in msdb to your build number in Visual Studio / SSIS?
SELECT name, verbuild
FROM msdb.dbo.sysssispackages
WHERE name LIKE '%bla%'
(Adjust WHERE-clause as necessary to find your package. Do NOT ever "SELECT * FROM msdb.dbo.sysssispackages" as it contains the package XML in one of the columns.)
And in Visual Studio, open the package, then right-click at the background of the package and select "Properties" from the context menu. Look at the field VersionBuild. It should match the number from the SELECT above!
I know this is not an actual solution to your problem but it may help locate where the cause of the problem is. If the number is older, it means that your package deployment did not work.
This sounds somewhat familiar to something I ran into a while back. Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly when I ran into this (so I can't check for sure), but I believe the fix I found was to make sure that I explicitly invoked the Build | Build st_5bd541c294054c25b9e7eb55b92bd0e2 command from the script editor (VSTA) menu before closing the window. (The specific project name will be different for each script, obviously, since it's based on a GUID; however, there will only be one possible submenu under Build.)
Explicitly invoking the Build command ensures that the binary code for the script gets ASCII-encoded and saved in the XML of the resulting .dtsx file. I'd gotten used to SSIS 2005 always building for me whenever I closed the script editor. Apparently, there are bizarre edge cases where SSIS 2008 doesn't always build the script project when the editor closes.
BTW, the precompiled binaries appear to be stored in a tag of the source XML called BinaryItem:
<DTS:Executable DTS:ExecutableType="Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.ScriptTask.ScriptTask, Microsoft.SqlServer.ScriptTask, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91" DTS:ThreadHint="0">
<DTS:Property DTS:Name="ObjectName">SCR_StepOne</DTS:Property>
<DTS:ObjectData>
<ScriptProject Name="ST_5bd541c294054c25b9e7eb55b92bd0e2" VSTAMajorVersion="2" VSTAMinorVersion="1" Language="CSharp" EntryPoint="Main" ReadOnlyVariables="User::FileOneName,User::OutputFolder" ReadWriteVariables="">
<BinaryItem Name="\bin\release\st_5bd541c294054c25b9e7eb55b92bd0e2.csproj.dll">
TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAgAAAAA4fug4AtAnNIbgBTM0hVGhpcyBwcm9ncmFtIGNhbm5vdCBiZSBydW4gaW4gRE9TIG1v
ZGUuDQ0KJAAAAAAAAABQRQAATAEDADuOb04AAAAAAAAAAOAAAiELAQgAABAAAAAIAAAAAAAAPi8A
AAAgAAAAQAAAAABAAAAgAAAAAgAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAMAQIUAABAA
It might be worth checking your source code control system history to see if that was getting updated for some of those screwy errors.
Caveat: I haven't found official Microsoft documentation on this.
This doesn't specifically solve the mystery you have, but if you are running file system-based packages and want to verify that the package that is running is the package you deployed, there is a way to do that.
Build your package.
Open the properties on your package and note down the "Version Build" property (alternatively, open the .dtsx in notepad and find the DTS:VersionBuild attribute.)
Deploy your package.
In your SQL Agent job step, go to the Verification tab.
Enter the Version Build in the "Verify package build" input box.
Execute the job step.
I don't know if this will force SSIS to throw out its cache and get the newly deployed package, but I do know if you modify the .dtsx package's build number by hand and then try to re-run the job step it fails because the package build doesn't match what it's looking for so it is definitely doing a run-time check of that value.
In the company I am I was asked to write an autoupdate function a la chrome. I.e. It should check periodically whether a new version is available, download the new version and apply it silently the next time the application starts.
I already have something up and running but it is more like a dirty hack than something I feel happy about it. So, I would like to know how to design and implement such a solution. My horrible hack works as this:
Have a mechanism to check whether a new version exists (a database query or a web service)
Download a full zip with the whole new version.
Check file signature. If everything went alright, set a registry value: must update to true.
When the application restarts, if the must update value is true, launch an update program and exist.
The update deletes the contents of the application folder, unzips the update and replaces the old contents, launches the application and exits.
Now, I would like to change it, so it works cleaner. I am planning to send the update as a bsdiff file. It gets downloaded. But the question is, what happens next?
When do apply the update?
Who is in charge of applying the patch? is it the program itself or is it a third program, as I did, which is in charge of applying the patch and relaunch the application?
If your going down the C++ route you can go to chromium and download the Chrome source code and dig around to see how the update is done, this might give you a better idea on how to approach it. Here's an article that might help.
If your familiar with .NET the recently release nuget also has an auto update feature that might be useful to look at, you can get the source code from here. David Ebbo has a blog about how its done here.
I'm not up to date on Delphi but you might be able to use either of the above options.
The workflow you proposed is more or less like it should work, but there's no need to re-invent the wheel - there are plenty libraries out there that will do this for you. Using a 3rd party library has the benefit of keeping your code cleaner while making sure the dirty process of auto-update is contained and working flawlessly.
Trust me, I know. I'm the author of NAppUpdate, an app update framework for .NET (which you might want to try out or learn from).
So, after giving it a lot of though, this is what I came with (for active directory I will refer to the directory where the main program lies, active program is the main program and update program is the one that replaces the active program and its resource files):
The active program checks if there is a new version every certain amount of time. If so, download it
Prepare new version in a separate folder (this can be done by copying the contents of the directory with the program to a subdirectory and applying a binary patch, or simply unziping the new version).
Set a flag that indicates that a new version is ready.
When a program is exiting (and one has to control for different interrupts here):
The active program checks the new version ready flag. Launch the update program and exit.
The update program checks if it can write in the active directory. If so, replaces the contents with the prepared version.
The update program has to recheck links and update them accordingly.
So guys, if you have a better workflow, please tell me.
You could literally use the Google Chrome update workflow by using the Google Chrome updater:
http://code.google.com/p/omaha/
They open sourced it Feb 2009.
I want to give credit to all open source libraries we use in our (commercial) application. I thought of showing a HTML page in our about dialog. Our build process uses ant and the third party libs are committed in svn.
What do you think is the best way of generating the HTML-Page?
Hard code the HTML-Page?
Switch dependency-management to apache-ivy and write some ant task to generate the html
Use maven-ant-tasks and write some ant task to generate the HTML
Use maven only to handle the dependencies and the HTML once, download them and commit them. The rest is done by the unchanged ant-scripts
Switch to maven2 (Hey boss, I want to switch to maven, in 1 month the build maybe work again...)
...
What elements should the about-dialog show?
Library name
Version
License
Author
Homepage
Changes made with link to source archive
...
Is there some best-practise-advice? Some good examples (applications having a nice about-dialog showing the dependencies)?
There are two different things you need to consider.
First, you may need to identify the licenses of the third-party code. This is often down with a THIRDPARTYLICENSE file. Sun Microsystems does this a lot. Look in the install directory for OpenOffice.org, for example. There are examples of .txt and .html versions of such files around.
Secondly, you may want to identify your dependencies in the About box in a brief way (and also refer to the file of license information). I would make sure the versions appear in the About box. One thing people want to quickly check for is an indication of whether the copy of your code they have needs to be replaced or updated because one of your library dependencies has a recently-disclosed bug or security vulnerability.
So I guess the other thing you want to include in the about box is a way for people to find your support site and any notices of importance to users of the particular version (whether or not you have a provision in your app for checking on-line for updates).
Ant task seems to be the best way. We do a similar thing in one of our projects. All the open source libraries are present in a specified folder. An Ant task reads the manifest of these libraries, versions and so on and generates an HTML, copies into another specified folder from where it is picked up by the web container.
Generating the page with each build would be wasteful if the libraries are not going to change often. Library versions may change, but the actual libraries don't. Easier to just create a HTML page would be the easiest way out, but that's one more maintenance head ache. Generate it once and include it with the package. The script can always be run again in case some changes are being made to the libraries (updating versions, adding new libraries).