MSBuildSsis2012 Now Available (...or Rather SSIS 2012 Deployment Fail Revisited...Again)

Edit: MSSISBuild has been updated and moved to GitHub. Read about it here. The rest of this post is still relevant, it’s just where you download the code form that has changed. this has proven to be a popular post, and the software has been downloaded a few times. I will post an update for SQL Server 2016 soon, though I think it is just references in the solution that needs updating.

Today I am pleased to announce the release of MSBuildSsis2012 on Codeplex. But before i get into what it does first, a bit of background:

Back in May, and subsequently a few more times since, I’ve posted about an error I get occasionally in one of our custom tasks that run in our builds. This custom task is a special case: As the SSIS 2012 project extension is dtproj, it cannot be compile using MSBuild. The typical solution would be to use DevEnv In MSBuild. And to automate deployment the solution (that would work for most people) is to use the SSIS Deployment Wizard in silent mode. However, we don’t use the SSIS Deployment Wizard in our automated builds as it does not work in Silent Mode when you have assembly references in the SSIS packages: it destroys those references and the dtsx packages fail whenever they run.

SSIS 2012 Deployment Fail Revisited

( Part 2 focuses on clearing out the SSISDB by creating new stored proc based on the one used by the maintenance job. If your Maintenance Job is taking hours to run, you need to check this out.)

When deploying our Ispacs through my builds, I’ve still been getting the intermittent “timeout” issues I first wrote about back in May, and this has been exacerbated by extra SSIS Projects added to the SSISDB catalog.

SQL Server 2014 CTP2 Available to Download

At the PASS Summit keynote today Quentin Clark announced that SQL Server CTP2 (which is public and the last public review) and is available right now to download here. It is also available as a VM on Azure. According to a tweet from Glenn Berry, the version number in the demo is 12.0.1524.

Before what you download and install, here’s what you ought to know;

Six of the Best: July 2013

Here’s a roundup of 6 links and updates from the past month I recommend as good reading. I decided that I needed to post a list of Blogs posts, technology info and other random-but-related stuff. So I decided to limit myself to a monthly post of sharing no more than 6 articles across the web. Enabling OpenSource Software using Windows Server 2012 R2Architectural overview of SQL Server 2014 In Memory OLTPThe 1 Skill You Need to Succeed in ITLike it or not, Self-Service BI and Cloud BI are HereLight Completely Stopped for One MinuteFeatures Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2014

Using DevEnv In MSBuild

So new week, new post, and getting back to what I really started this blog. I like sharing knowledge, but part of the reason I blog about new versions of software is so that it motivates me to read up on what’s coming up, but the post today is typical of what I enjoy writing about the most. This post is about how to get projects that are unsupported by MSBuild built in an automated build.

SSIS 2012 Deployment Fail Part Two: SSIS Server Maintenance Job

Recently I post about a timeout issue I was getting when deploying SSIS projects. It was mainly to do with too much log and previous versions being kept in the SSISDB on our test environments. My solution was to run the SSIS Server Maintenance Job prior to every deployment to mitigate the timeout. By and large this has been super effective. However that job can take a considerable amount of time to run.

SSIS 2012 Deployment Fail

(Update: Part 2 focuses on clearing out the SSISDB by creating new stored proc based on the one used by the maintenance job. If your Maintenance Job is taking hours to run, you need to check this out.)

No WiX Wednesday this week, owing to commitments in real life. Instead, here is something regarding SSIS 2012 Deployment. Enjoy!

As part of our CI and Test Builds we have automated the deployment of two SSIS Projects. One is fairly large and the other one contains only two dtsx packages. Recently we have been getting timeout issues with the deployment of the solutions.

BIDS for Visual Studio 2012 Released

Microsoft have released SQL Server Data Tools for Analysis Services, Integration Services and Reporting Services projects with Visual Studio 2012. Finally, it looks like the BIDS suite is going to be usable with the most up-to-date version of Visual Studio; after we upgraded to SQL Server 2012, for about 3 months last year we were able to use Visual Studio 2010 as our sole IDE, before the update to Visual Studio 2012 rolled out at our office.