Earlier today I had a need to get some information out of a Visual Studio project file and in this blog post I’m going to share a couple of ways of going about that because I’m pretty sure I won’t be the only person that ever wants to do this. The specific problem I was trying to solve was finding out how many objects in my database project (i.e. ...

A few weeks ago I published a blog entitled Collecting information about your SSIS packages which demonstrated a way that you could use T-SQL and XQuery to derive information about your SSIS packages. Since then I’ve made a few amendments to the script that accompanied that blog post as follows: New columns The collected data now includes the ...

Did you know that is is possible to read the contents of a SSIS package (i.e. a .dtsx file) from within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) using T-SQL? For example, take the following T-SQL snippet: select cast(BulkColumn as XML)from openrowset(bulk 'C:\tmp\MyPkg.dtsx', single_blob) as pkgColumn; It uses OPENROWSET ...

So I was doing some research on which is the best way to pass multiple-valued parameters into a stored procedure or user-defined function when I found some interesting results. I had always used a string-based user-defined function to parse a delimited list of values and I knew I could use XML to do the same thing, yet I had never compared the two ...

This is a follow-up to a posting from several months ago (Using XML Data Type Methods to query SSIS Packages). I included a temp table (based on information I found in the Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.VarTypeConvert class's constructor) which gives the conversion of the numeric data type value to the appropriate TypeCode (System.TypeCode). ...

So I was trying to figure out a way to get my iTunes/iPod music library into SQL Server. Unfortunately, the XML in the library is not the easiest with which to work. Here is an abridged version of that XML: <plist version=''1.0''>   <dict>      <key>Major ...