Browsing packages stored in MSDB

  • This is probably an impossible idea.

    We have a server that's being retired. I'm trying to figure out a way, short of downloading each and every package, of browsing the packages in MSDB to see if a certain connection manager exists in the package or if there's a certain connection string in the packages.

    The issue being that there's the possibility someone forgot to throw the connection manager into a config file.

    Any thoughts on how this can be accomplished? I've checked the sysdtspackages90 table and there's nothing in there that's helpful.

    Comments appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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  • Boy, I don't know where it stores them. Seems like it must actually be storing them in the file system somewhere. How about running profiler and deploying a package to MSDB and see what happens?

    I tried the obvious sysdts tables, no luck, and my old friend syscomments, also no luck.


    Rick Todd

  • I found two possible tables, but the data there is mostly hex and non-readable. I'll take your profiler suggestion and see if I can figure it out. But somehow I doubt what I want to do is possible.

    I was just hoping someone would prove me wrong. @=)

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