Scheduling a DTS package

  • Hi all,

    Iam not very familiar with SQL server 2000, but one of my application runs on this. There are many packages and all are scheduled through a job. While most of them have no problem and runs as per the schedule there are few which shows errors. The problem here is when i run it manually as a package, it is succesful and the package is scheduled to run,it fails. Can anyone tell me a solution for this? please? Let me know if you need more information.

    Regards,Preethi

  • Can you post us the error message that you get while it is executed as a job?

    Cheers,
    Sugeshkumar Rajendran
    SQL Server MVP
    http://sugeshkr.blogspot.com

  • Possibly due to security. When you run the package manually, it runs under your credentials. When its scheduled it runs under the service account of SQL Agent.

    It could be connections to data sources, or the file system

    I'd suggest, as a first step, go to the job step that the package runs in and enable logging for that step. then you can examine the output after the package fails and see exactly what the error was.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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  • When you view the job, does it show you the name of the DTS it is calling or is it encrypted? Regardless, at the job level there may be parameters passed to the DTS which could be the cause of failure. If they're encrypted for ease of troubleshooting you may want to locate and use DTSRunDec (google) as it will show you the actual string being passed.

    Also, the following tables may help you find more information (if your DTS packages are logging):

    msdb.dbo.sysdtspackagelog

    msdb.dbo.sysdtssteplog

    msdb.dbo.sysdtstasklog

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