SQL 2005 - DTS - Run latest version as a Default

  • We have an DTS with a number of versions. After making changes, I saved the package and it is the latest version. When I Right click the package and choose Execute Package, it seems to be running the older version i.e., the one before making the changes.

    Is there any setting that I should modify to run the latest version of the DTS. Because, previously, there was no need to manually select the version and run the dts.

  • When manually running, this seems to be the norm.

    When run from a job, it will run the latest version.

    If you know for certain that you no longer need the prior versions, you may want to remove them from msdb. I would consider dumping them in source control first.

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  • Hi Jason,

    When I right click the package and give execute package, we would not be getting the versions. it starts executing. I was under the impression, that in such cases, the recent version would run.

    As for the cleaning up older versions, we have kept it as a last option, if nothing else works.

  • The following post may be of help to you.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic864318-148-1.aspx#bm864417

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  • Hi,

    thanks for pointing to the post. I have the exact situation given in that post (copied below):

    Question #2:

    One of my packages calls a child package. But I keep getting an error saying that the parent package is expecting a child package with a specific GUID. I can't remember the exact error, but somewhere along the lines of "The package with ID.VersionID {A234-5435435-345345-fe4} expected does not exist.". In other words, it looks like the parent remembers the GUID of the child package and expects it to be there every time. [/size]As given in that post, I browsed the chose the correct child package. The thing is when that particular parent pkg version is run, it runs fine. But when we just execute the package, it fails with the same error as mentioned above.

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