Script task question

  • How do i debug a Script task...I need to know the values in the variables...Is it possible to step through???

  • Of course. Set breakpoints and run interactively in BIDS.

    Debugging a Script Component is not so easy ...

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  • If I remember correctly SQL 2005 SSIS won't let you step through the script. I seem to remember using MSGBOX a lot..

    CEWII

  • Elliott Whitlow (7/13/2011)


    If I remember correctly SQL 2005 SSIS won't let you step through the script. I seem to remember using MSGBOX a lot..

    CEWII

    You do not remember correctly - it works in SSIS 2005:-)

    But there was a bug (I think) - if you've got multiple script tasks chained together and you're trying to debug one of the later scripts, breakpoints are sometimes just ignored. I can't remember the exact circumstances.

    The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
    - Martin Rees
    The absence of consumable DDL, sample data and desired results is, however, evidence of the absence of my response
    - Phil Parkin

  • Phil Parkin (7/13/2011)


    Elliott Whitlow (7/13/2011)


    If I remember correctly SQL 2005 SSIS won't let you step through the script. I seem to remember using MSGBOX a lot..

    CEWII

    You do not remember correctly - it works in SSIS 2005:-)

    But there was a bug (I think) - if you've got multiple script tasks chained together and you're trying to debug one of the later scripts, breakpoints are sometimes just ignored. I can't remember the exact circumstances.

    Then I stand corrected, its been a while for me with SSIS 2005. I have spent significantly more time with SSIS 2008 and a wee bit with 2011.

    CEWII

  • BIDS 2005 requires you to run the entire package to be able to debug using breakpoints on a script task. If you try to just execute the script task by itself, the breakpoints are ignored.

  • Phil Parkin (7/13/2011)


    Of course. Set breakpoints and run interactively in BIDS.

    Debugging a Script Component is not so easy ...

    To expand: take a look at the Locals window and the Watch window (if you added a watch to a variable).

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