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  • December 16, 2013 at 3:24 pm

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    As a DBA, the #1 reason (for me) I seem to need access to the server itself are for diagnosing ETL issues and managing of SSIS packages;

    we have a lot of SSIS packages, adn they exist and are executed on the server.

    We have a large number of scheduled jobs migrate data from various flat file resources to staging folders for further processing; think of the classic migrating of SFTP files from one source to the server, so they can be bulk inserted, bcp, or have an SSIS package fiddle with them.

    I very often need to open those files directly, and for that

    access to the proper folders or shares.

    Lowell

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