One of the questions I get when teaching others how to use Biml is how do you deal with sensitive information like usernames and passwords in your Biml Solution. No one wants to leave this information in plain text in a solution. You need access to it while interrogating your sources and destination connections for metadata. You also need it while Biml creates your SSIS packages since SSIS uses SELECT to read the metadata during design time to gather its metadata. If you lock away that sensitive information too tightly, you won’t be effective while building your solutions.
In the end, you’ll have to compromise between security and efficacy.
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