Ssis 2008 configuration file relative path

That is a lot of maintenance I would like to avoid. If you are using the command line dtexec. If you use this method, remove the configurations from the control flow. I have a conference call coming up so I'll.

There is no package path. Regardless, I'm confused. Set up an environment variable that houses your directory. Use that variable in the command line that calls dtexec. If you're using a batch file, this should be trivial. I was not saying that there is an actual variable by that name. I believe you are suggesting that I setup the batch file that runs DTExec as follows:. Variable of the server. This adds work since I must now maintain the configuration file names and locations in batch files across 4 environments with over packages migrating across the environments.

If I add or remove a configuration file to a package, I must now modify the batch file on all 4 environments.

With the method I am trying to get to work, when the configuration files are changed, the batch file that runs the DTExec command does not need to be touched since the only thing that needs to be done is to set the working directory of the DTExec command. This also causes a problem with different developers working on the same package at different times. If each developer does not have the same hard path to the package configuration files, they are going to get errors when the SSIS package loads.

That way, the path to the configuration files can be defined at the server level where it belongs and the specific desired configuration file name can be specified at the SSIS package lever where it belongs.

Multiple configuration files specified in a single SSIS package would look like this:. I was hoping to keep things simple with XML configurations files.

I do not want to get into the details of my environment that make the SQL Server based configurations a less desirable option. I am going to look into the two other options of Indirect Configurations and SQL stored configurations to see what the next best option might be.

I will get back to this post next week with what I have found. Microsoft should allow variables in the definition of the hard path of the location of an XML Configuration file. That way, the server name, share, and path to the configuration files could be passed in from Server Environment variables and the name of each configuration file can be baked into each SSIS package. That way, minimal environment variables will need to be set on each server and the package will still work from the file system or SQL server.

But, what if this was deployed on an elephant He is not talking about deploying it to SQL. He is talking about deploying it to the file system. If he were deploying it to SQL, as he noted at the end of his notes, relative paths would not make sense. The underlying issue that the moderator and other at Microsoft have, and fail to articulate, is that they want any SSIS configuration used by the developer to be valid for any possible way that it could be deployed, forgetting the developers actually have brains and know that is the packages get deployed differently, they need to be configured differently.

I think you misunderstood my question. I really like the idea of supporting relative paths. As a matter of fact, I've posted some workarounds to not having relative directories on these forums in the past. I don't do it much anymore, because it often creates more problems than it solves, given the current support for it. But, I'm not Microsoft. Geef een reactie Reactie annuleren Vul je reactie hier in Vul je gegevens in of klik op een icoon om in te loggen. E-mail vereist Adres wordt niet getoond.

Naam vereist. Zoek naar:. Maak een gratis website of blog op WordPress. Volg Volgend. Meld mij aan. Heb je al een WordPress. Nu inloggen. Reacties laden E-mailadres Vereist Naam Vereist Site. When setting up an Execute Package task, mimic the following screenshots to use a relative path:. When setting up a package configuration, use the relative path:. An example. The first line changes to the drive of the working directory.

The second line actually changes to that directory. The third line runs dtexec. Please make sure that you don't miss the comments, too.

Marian agreed they are. That's not very clean though, it will generate warnings about the missing config file.

Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. The utility then applies the run-time options that you specified on the command line when you started the utility.

Finally, the utility reloads and reapplies the design-time configurations. Found a connect item here HTH. Improve this answer. Kin Shah Kin Shah The idea behind my deployment model would be that the developers would build their package and create a config file with test values in it, most likely that file will be on a test file share.

It should say "a run-time attribute", because the word configuration is ambiguous. The values in the design-time config will override it. It's all in the documentation I posted.

Reading up more on that I have updated my answer to reflect the same.