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  • thanks for the question - cheers

  • Interesting question. And straightforward.

    I guess calling it a .ispac file instead of a .zip file makes sense if you want to know from the extension which if your zip files contain ssis packages and which don't. But I'm not convinced that using a new extension for what is a after all vey well known and popular format just to gain that was sensible on MS's part.

    Tom

  • L' Eomot Inversé (6/13/2012)


    Interesting question. And straightforward.

    I guess calling it a .ispac file instead of a .zip file makes sense if you want to know from the extension which if your zip files contain ssis packages and which don't. But I'm not convinced that using a new extension for what is a after all vey well known and popular format just to gain that was sensible on MS's part.

    .xlsx and .pptx are also just .zip files 🙂

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  • Koen Verbeeck (6/13/2012)


    L' Eomot Inversé (6/13/2012)


    Interesting question. And straightforward.

    I guess calling it a .ispac file instead of a .zip file makes sense if you want to know from the extension which if your zip files contain ssis packages and which don't. But I'm not convinced that using a new extension for what is a after all vey well known and popular format just to gain that was sensible on MS's part.

    .xlsx and .pptx are also just .zip files 🙂

    Do you mean that .ispac is just another utensil in the openxml kitchen sink? 😉

    I thought it was just some files with pre-existing file (non-xml) formats zipped together, but could be horribly wrong there. :ermm:

    Tom

  • L' Eomot Inversé (6/13/2012)


    Koen Verbeeck (6/13/2012)


    L' Eomot Inversé (6/13/2012)


    Interesting question. And straightforward.

    I guess calling it a .ispac file instead of a .zip file makes sense if you want to know from the extension which if your zip files contain ssis packages and which don't. But I'm not convinced that using a new extension for what is a after all vey well known and popular format just to gain that was sensible on MS's part.

    .xlsx and .pptx are also just .zip files 🙂

    Do you mean that .ispac is just another utensil in the openxml kitchen sink? 😉

    I thought it was just some files with pre-existing file (non-xml) formats zipped together, but could be horribly wrong there. :ermm:

    It's not that bad 😀

    Basically it's all the .dtsx files (the packages) together with a small number of XML files. The XML files contain information about project parameters and shared connection managers, so they are normally really small.

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  • Interesting question!

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