I remember reading about someone who was being hired for a role in a film which was about a dancer. The conclusion was that it was much easier to teach...

SSMS won't run on your phone. The most likely way of making this work is using some sort of remote access software to a PC which has SSMS installed.

Unless you...

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Phil Parkin.

Create another variable, called SQLCommand (or whatever). Define SQLCommand in the Variables section as

SQLCommand = "SELECT * FROM dbo.SQL_SOURCE WHERE Mod_Date >= " + @[User::LastRunDate]

and use SQLCommand as your query...

I can't remember a time when I didn't use this, along with the colouring options provided by SQL Prompt.

Did it also exist in the olden days of Query Analyser?

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Phil Parkin.

Sorry for the slow reply.

Don't know whether it will help, but might be worth a try. On the Excel connection properties, try setting 'RetainSameConnection' to true.

OK good start. Can you post a screenshot of your control flow? Redact the text...

Which client software are you using to connect?

Something like this?

SELECT DISTINCT
       source = 'Restored'
      ,au1.UserId
      ,ug1.Name
  ...

Not sure what all that 'object_id'...

I would like to compare results

Please define more accurately what you mean by 'compare'. What results are you hoping to obtain?

Are you doing the export as five data flows?

Are they running in series or in parallel?

I've had those 'unexpected …' errors several times in the past and they're almost always difficult to solve, exactly because of the dearth of logging info which they seem to...

Is that error message taken from the All Executions report?

i ran the pkg sql to sql.   it ran in less than 5 seconds.   because i have a derived column component between the sql frokm and to adapters, i...

Fair point on the ROLLBACK, although it would close the BEGIN TRANSACTION (rather than leaving it open).

Correct, though resolved by moving the BEGIN TRAN down a few rows.

@ReferenceNumber is used...