SSIS: How to handle configuration file between Package

  • Hi,

    I want to create a configuration file (XML file) to be used by all my SSIS packages. When I create a SQL Agent job, I can specify the configuration file to use in the "configuration" tab.

    If PackageA is calling PackageB and the execution of PackageA in scheduled in a job (with a configuration file), How I can tell PackageB to use the configuration file that PackageA received form the SQL Agent job?

    Thanks

  • Is it feasible in your environment to reconfigure package B so that its variables are parent package-configured from package A rather than as independent configuration file variables? This would eliminate the need for package B to know where A is getting its variables from.

  • This seems to be a great idea.

    Do you know where I can find information regarding this? Can you explain how to transfer variable from package to package.

    I have a chain of 20-25 packages fired up at different moments. If I need to move everything to a test/dev environment, I need to open each packages and change manually the connections in the connection managers. What is is the best way to use the configuration file?

    I am coming from a Sybase background and learning the MS-SSIS world.

    Thanks for your help

  • I've attached a brief description paper that I put together last November based on the way I build my parent/child packages. I hope that it's useful.

    There is also a general article on parent and child package configurations on msdn at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345179.aspx

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