SSIS 2016 Project Slow to Open and Design

  • I am having an issue with my SSIS 2016 Package in VSTS 2105. I have four packages in a solution and none of the packages are overly complex. When I open any of the packages or try to code them, each mouse click is taking 10 to 20 minutes to respond. I have already tried setting Delay Validation to True as well as setting the Work Offline option. I have even copied the packages to a new solution, but I get the same behavior. This seemed to start happening around the time that I added an expression to a variable that referenced a Project.params environment variable which is a simple integer value of 18.
    @[User::vETLMinimumStartDate] = (DT_WSTR, 50) (DT_DBDATE) DATEADD( "Month", - @[$Project::env_ETLMonthsOfHistory] , DATEADD( "Day", -1,GETDATE()) )
    @[User::vETLMinimumStartDateKey] = (DT_I4) ( SUBSTRING( @[User::vETLMinimumStartDate] , 1, 4 ) + SUBSTRING( @[User::vETLMinimumStartDate] , 6, 2 ) + SUBSTRING( @[User::vETLMinimumStartDate] , 9, 2 ))
    There is no error or issue with variables or the expression as they both do exactly what I need them to do. I have even gone as far as running Repair on Visual Studio from the Control Panel

    Does anyone have any idea what is going on here and what I can do get things working again?

  • michael.french 172 - Monday, February 6, 2017 10:54 AM

    I am having an issue with my SSIS 2016 Package in VSTS 2105. I have four packages in a solution and none of the packages are overly complex. When I open any of the packages or try to code them, each mouse click is taking 10 to 20 minutes to respond. I have already tried setting Delay Validation to True as well as setting the Work Offline option. I have even copied the packages to a new solution, but I get the same behavior. This seemed to start happening around the time that I added an expression to a variable that referenced a Project.params environment variable which is a simple integer value of 18.
    @[User::vETLMinimumStartDate] = (DT_WSTR, 50) (DT_DBDATE) DATEADD( "Month", - @[$Project::env_ETLMonthsOfHistory] , DATEADD( "Day", -1,GETDATE()) )
    @[User::vETLMinimumStartDateKey] = (DT_I4) ( SUBSTRING( @[User::vETLMinimumStartDate] , 1, 4 ) + SUBSTRING( @[User::vETLMinimumStartDate] , 6, 2 ) + SUBSTRING( @[User::vETLMinimumStartDate] , 9, 2 ))
    There is no error or issue with variables or the expression as they both do exactly what I need them to do. I have even gone as far as running Repair on Visual Studio from the Control Panel

    Does anyone have any idea what is going on here and what I can do get things working again?

    This is strange and I have no idea what the problem is. But if it was me, I'd create another solution and try adding copies of the packages to it, one at a time, and see what happens. Maybe there's one specific package which is causing the issue. Or maybe it's a strange project setting.

    If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

  • I found the answer. What I had done was assigned the value to the variable in the Expression of the variable.
    @[User::vETLMinimumStartDate] = (DT_WSTR, 50) (DT_DBDATE) DATEADD( "Month", - @[$Project::env_ETLMonthsOfHistory] , DATEADD( "Day", -1,GETDATE()) )

    While the correct evaluation was returned, apparently it did so in a big recursive loop that somehow ended.

    When I removed the assignment, the project returned to normal operating performance from VSTS.
    (DT_WSTR, 50) (DT_DBDATE) DATEADD( "Month", - @[$Project::env_ETLMonthsOfHistory] , DATEADD( "Day", -1,GETDATE()) )

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