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  • SSIS Nugget: Nesting variables to calculate values

    I was looking over a package today that a colleague had built and it contained the following code in a Script Task that was being used to return today’s day name: Public Sub Main() ' Dim sWeekday As String sWeekday = Now().DayOfWeek.ToString Dts.Variables(''User::DayName'').Value = sWeekday ...
    Posted to SSIS Junkie (Weblog) by jamie.thomson on October 24, 2008
  • One small step for the SSIS team, one giant leap for SSIS developers

      That’s what I twittered recently upon first opening up Release Candidate 0 of SQL Server 2008. You may remember that back in March of this year I told you about a new feature that would be appearing in a future CTP; namely that a container would provide information about its parent container. Hence if you peer into the depths of this ...
    Posted to SSIS Junkie (Weblog) by jamie.thomson on June 7, 2008
  • SQL Server 2005: Passing variables into an OPENQUERY argument

    Today I ran into a blocker when trying to do this. Having spent a reasonable amount of time taking all of my sql statements out of the OPENQUERY argument and putting them into a string variable I then found it didn't work. The reason (from BOL) it turns out is that, and I quote; "OPENQUERY does not accept variables for its ...
    Posted to Jim 2.0 (Weblog) by James.Pipe on June 28, 2007
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