April 18, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Nice interesting question. Keep the 2012 stuff coming.
I answered it (correctly) on the basis of common sense (that works quite a lot for SQL server, perhaps more with each new release; pity they couldn't do that with certaiin other products) rather than knowing the answer.
But I didn't previously know that parameters for SSIS packages had been introduced in the latest version so the question taught me that before I even started to think about the answer.
Working out which of the 5 options were irrelevant (it had to be either none or the just environment variable, since the option involving the "required" status of the parameter was clearly contrary to common sense - in fact in my view contrary to sanity, and it seemed common sense to specify a default at design time and to allow a server default to be set too while not having a run-time option would be strange, to say the least) was a bit harder than working out which was the right answer, but not needed to get the answer right unless MS had done something very strange. I guessed that none of the options (other than the one requiring insanity) was irrelevant and discovered when I followed up the link in the explanation that I had guessed that wrong, there are only three ways of determininging a parameter not four, so I learnt something from the explanation and reference too. So for me it was a very good question.
Tom
April 18, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Everyone thanks for the great feedback.
There is another SSIS 2012 question in the pipeline for this month, and I'll do my best to think of some new ones.
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April 20, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Good question. Keep coming more of this stuff.
--- Babu
May 7, 2012 at 2:23 am
Nice question, thank you
Iulian
August 29, 2012 at 5:52 am
Great question... really digs down into the bowels of the new 2012 interface. Maybe I should rephrase it as an EXCELLENT question.
Jamie
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