Automatic documentation generator for SSIS/SSDT ?

  • Is there any tool free/paid/trial, which can automatically generate documentation for SSIS projects or just selected parts of the package ? For SQL server we have the awesome RedGate. Do we have anything like that for SSIS ? I saw one tool, but not sure if it is as good as the "standards" set by RedGate - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1678907/tools-to-document-ssis-workflows

    An example of what I expect -

    Say I want to document only one package. It just copies one table (with column names) from an OLE DB source to a flat file.

    I want the documentation for this package to contain -

    > The settings of OLE DB source

    > Settings of connection manager (You can hide passwords or server names if you wish or even replace them by aliases in the generated documentation)

    > A sample of what the source table looks like i.e preview (columns, sample rows). It would be great if i could also choose to get the documentation (schema, tables, columns, column metadata, related tables etc) for the table as well.

    I know this is asking a lot. But, it would be great to have this. Could there be any strong need (for work or commercial) for such a tool/add on to SSIS ?

  • Pragmatic Works has a documenting tool, but it is not free.

    http://www.pragmaticworks.com/Products/BI-Documenter.aspx

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  • Koen Verbeeck (10/9/2013)


    Pragmatic Works has a documenting tool, but it is not free.

    http://www.pragmaticworks.com/Products/BI-Documenter.aspx

    Thank you very much for that. It looks like what I need.

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