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Documenting SSIS Catalogs

Dave Mason continues a series on documenting Integration Services:

In the last post, we looked at query options for documenting SSIS packages that are deployed via the legacy package deployment model. What about SSIS packages deployed to a catalog via the project deployment model? Is the package XML accessible so that we can query and shred it? I don’t know with certainty, but I think it is not.

However, there are .NET Framework interfaces we can use to programatically obtain SSIS catalog metadata. So for this post, I’ll soldier on without my dear friend T-SQL and proceed with PowerShell. Here’s a look at the projects and packages I was working with as I developed and debugged the script code. It’s a short list with just two projects, having one package each. The “DailyETLMain.dtsx” package is a sample from Microsoft’s GitHub repository.

Click through for Dave’s explanation and a link to the script.