Extracting SSIS Package information using T-SQL
SQL Server Integration Services can store it packages in either the file system or the MSDB system database. One of the advantages of storing a package in MSDB is that you can use T-SQL to read the package definition and generate reports on your SSIS package library.
Here are a couple of example queries to extract the package GUID for each package and to display the connection string for each OLEDB connection manager in a package.
Example 1: Package GUID display
USE MSDB
GO
WITH xmlPackages
-- Read sysssispackage and convert packagedata image column to XML datatype
AS
(SELECT [name]
, [Description]
, verbuild
, CAST(CAST(packagedata as VARBINARY(MAX)) AS XML) PackageXML
FROM dbo.sysssispackages)
,
Packages
-- Cross join each package row with itself to extract out the GUID then convert it to VARCHAR
AS
(SELECT [name]
, [Description]
, [verbuild]
, x.guid.value('text()[1]', 'varchar(4000)') PackageGUID
FROM xmlPackages
CROSS APPLY
PackageXML.nodes('declare namespace DTS="www.microsoft.com/SqlServer/Dts"; //DTS:Executable/DTS:Property[@DTS:Name="VersionGUID"]') AS x(guid)
)
SELECT *
FROM Packages
Example 2: Display Connections strings for each OLEDB Connection Manager
USE MSDB
GO
WITH xmlPackages
-- Read sysssispackages and convert packagedata image column to XML datatype
AS
(SELECT [name]
, [Description]
, verbuild
, CAST(CAST(packagedata as VARBINARY(MAX)) AS XML) PackageXML
FROM dbo.sysssispackages)
,
Packages
-- Cross join each package row with OLEDB connections found in the package and convert it to VARCHAR
AS
(SELECT [name]
, [Description]
, [verbuild]
, x.cn.value('text()[1]', 'varchar(4000)') Conn
FROM xmlPackages
CROSS APPLY
PackageXML.nodes('declare namespace DTS="www.microsoft.com/SqlServer/Dts"; //DTS:ConnectionManager[DTS:Property="OLEDB"]/DTS:ObjectData/DTS:ConnectionManager/DTS:Property [@DTS:Name="ConnectionString"]') AS x(cn)
)
SELECT [Name] PackageName
, [Description]
, [verbuild]
, Conn ConnectionString
FROM Packages
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Does not work with the packagedata field in dbo.sysdtspackages . Please provide complete information or don’t waste our time with wishful thinking.
Thank you. This was very helpful. I am trying to find the Child Packages a package calls. I cannot figure out the syntax to get what is in Arguments
Any help is appreciated. Thank you
Found it! When copying the code make sure it uses correct Invalid character for quote ‘
Also comments have to be removed or re-keyed.
Thank you very much for your help!
It looks like I is giving an error message: “Msg 2333, Level 16, State 1, Line 8
XQuery [#xmlPackages.PackageXML.nodes()]: Invalid source character 0x201d”
Can you help please?
Glad you found it useful. Both examples are the SQL code. The line you referenced is a comment. These SQL statements will would with SQL Server 2005 or later.
Thank you for your article. Could you please also include the code for ” Read sysssispackage and convert packagedata image column to XML datatype” .
Is this code SQL version specific?