how to share variables across packages?

I'm working on a solution in Visual Studio that has 3 SSIS packages, and now I want to add a 4th that needs access to variables defined in one of the other packages. How can I do that?

One way would be to dump out your variables and values to a raw file or db if you prefer. Then any other process from any execution context can access them anytime via a "source connection" to that file...

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Kevin,

Have you looked at package configurations at all. You could set parameter values from a table or a parent package variable.

Rafael Salas

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Rafael Salas wrote:

Have you looked at package configurations at all. You could set parameter values from a table or a parent package variable.

Yes, I intend to set my variables externally, via package configurations. But I don't know what a "parameter" is or how it differs from a variable. And I don't know how to allow my variables scoped to package X to be accessed by package Y -- how do I make package X to be a parent of package Y?

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Sorry I meant variable...not parameter.

In short, to make X parent of Y; you can use a Execute Package Task (control Flow) in X that would call package Y.

Rafael Salas

How to SET multiple variables from one table record?

It's come up more than once for me, where I need to DECLARE and SET several SQL variables in a Stored Procedure where many of these values come from the same table record - what is the best method for doing this, where I don't have to resort to making a separate query for each value.

Currently I'll do something like this:

DECLARE @.var1 int
SET @.var1 = (SELECT TOP 1 field1 FROM table1 WHERE recordkey = @.somekey)
DECLARE @.var2 nvarchar(20)
SET @.var2 = (SELECT TOP 1 field2 FROM table1 WHERE recordkey = @.somekey)

Of course, I'd rather just have to query "table1" just once to assign my variables.

What obvious bit of T-SQL am I missing?

Thank you in advance.

Select @.var1 = field1, @.var2 = field2, @.var3 = field3 from table1 where recordid = @.recid

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Thank you PDraigh!

I knew it was something obvious - I think I need a holiday

how to set multiple local variable from single select statement

is it possible to set the value of multiple local variables using just 1
statement. For example assume a simple table 'E' with 3 columns 'empID',
'empName', 'empToken'. I can get their values with
declare @.ENAME as char(30), @.ETOKEN as int
SET @.ENAME = (SELECT empName FROM E WHERE empID = 1)
SET @.ETOKEN = (SELECT empToken FROM E WHERE empID = 1)
What I want to do is compine the two assignments into 1 single statement so
that the db never has to be looked up more than once. e.g.
SET @.ENAME, @.ETOKEN = (SELECT empName, empToken FROM E WHERE empID = 1)
is this possible and if it is, what is the synthax?try this.. hope this helps.
SELECT @.ENAME = empName,
@.ETOKEN = empToken
FROM E WHERE empID = 1
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sure:
SELECT @.ENAME = empName , @.ETOKEN = emptoken FROM E WHERE empID = 1
HTH, jens Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
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How to set a file for replacement of variables?

Hi everyone,

I'd like to change in order to improve the maintenance of our packages.

I've got lots of packages running with values such as "path" and "filename" inside variables.

Let me know how can I set xml file for that.

Thanks a lot,

It's solved.

How to send parameters to report when executing ReportingService.Render

I'm trying to figure out how you send/set the report variables when using the ReportingService.Render method.

I can get the ReportParameters array using GetReportParameters but can't seem to find a way to populate the ParameterValue array that is passed as a variable in the Render method. I've tried creating an ArrayList comprised of ParameterValue objects (non-array), adding them to the ArrayList, and trying to convert that to a ParameterValue array. The example code I found is in VB.NET and looks like this:

reportParametersArray = rs.GetReportParameters(reportPath, Nothing, True, _
reportParameterValuesArrayList.ToArray(GetType(ParameterValue)), Nothing)

I tried to do the same thing in C#:

rpReportParams = rsReports.GetReportParameters(sReportPath, null, true, arrayListParams.ToArray(System.Type.GetType(ParameterValue)), dscCredentials);

The compile error is :
'ReportService.ParameterValue' denotes a 'class' where a 'variable' was expected

Putting quotes around ParameterValue returns the following error:
Argument '4': cannot convert from 'System.Array' to 'ParameterValue[]'
Anyone had success populating report parameters or have a suggestion?

Thanks,

O.

If arrayListParams is an ArrayList that contains ParameterValue objects, try this in C#

(ParameterValue[])arrayListParams.ToArray(typeof(ParameterValue))