Category: Integration Services

Regis Baccaro ran into a rather lengthy error when trying to create an SSISDB catalog:

The error I got was :

Method not found: ‘Void Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.IntegrationServices.EnableSsisSupportAlwaysOnSqmHelper.Initialize()’. (Microsoft.SqlServer.IntegrationServices.UITasks)

Looking at the documentation for the namespaceMicrosoft.SqlServer.Management.IntegrationServices I quickly figured out that I would be able to create the SSIS Catalog manually using PowerShell.

But then I couldn’t locate the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.IntegrationServices dll anywhere except from in the GAC so I had to load it a somewhat cumbersome way (with help from Remo). Below is the script I used for doing that.

It’s a strange error, but Regis does provide a workaround.

SQL Sasquatch has some SSIS package issues stemming from a lack of NUMA awareness:

So the server had plenty of free RAM.  But NUMA node 1 was in a pinch.  And SSIS spooled its buffers to disk.  Doggone it.

I guess I’d figured that notifications were sent based on server-wide memory state.  But I guess maybe memory state on each NUMA node can lead to a memory notification?

The target SQL Server instance, a beefy one, was also on this physical server.  There’s 1.5 TB of RAM on the server.  🙂

It also looks like the easiest fix is something which was deprecated in Windows Server 2012 R2.

Slava Murygin shows how to use project parameters and expressions to make SSIS packages a bit more dynamic:

Being on SSIS presentation recently, I’ve realized that a lot of people, who are working with SSIS for years, still do not know what “Parameterizing” is and how to do it.

SSIS has been changed a lot in SQL Server 2012, where Microsoft announced “Project Deployment Model”. Since then you can deploy Project, and you can assign Parameters to that project, which can be passed to it for execution. Before that, developers used Configurations to supply values for internal variables and connections.

Adding parameters to packages grants you a huge level of flexibility when moving between environments or reusing components.

Matt Cushing gives us some notes on learning SSIS:

Send Mail tasks won’t work unless you have things configured properly.  I was trying to find things on google and all I kept coming across was how to configure the task or how to Install SSIS and configure it to run, not how to configure the server to send it properly.  Thankfully John took pity on me and helped me realize that using an execute SQL task and sp_send_dbmail works more easily and cleanly – Sql Server Central

I’ve used Send Mail a few times, but have always had somebody else around to configure Exchange or whatever other mail server we were using at the time.

Koen Verbeeck has some initial thoughts on using 2016 in a POC:

• AutoAdjustBufferSize property of the SSIS data flow. Done with manually setting the Buffer Size and Buffer Max Rows. Just set this property to true and the data flow takes care of its own performance.

• Custom logging levels in the SSIS Catalog. Now I can finally define a logging level that only logs errors and warnings AND set it as the server-wide default level.

• The DROP TABLE IF EXISTS syntax. The shorter the code, the better 🙂

I was initially a bit concerned with AutoAdjustBufferSize because I figured I could do a better job of selecting buffer size.  Maybe on the margin I might be able to, but I think I’m going to give it a try.

Matt Smith ran into an SSIS error on a new laptop:

So today I went to run a SSIS package on my new laptop and bam, error message.

Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.DtsRuntimeException: The package failed to load due to error 0xC0011008 “Error loading from XML. No further detailed error information can be specified for this problem because no Events object was passed where detailed error information can be stored.”. This occurs when CPackage::LoadFromXML fails.

This feels like one of those types of errors that you spend 3 hours trying to figure out.  Gotta love machine rebuild errors…