Joel Greijer

;WITH unicodeDataSource AS (   SELECT N'Hello' AS Text , N'English' AS Language UNION ALL   SELECT N'Здравствуйте' AS Text, N'Russian' AS Language UNION ALL   SELECT N'こんにちは' AS Text, N'Japanese' AS Language UNION ALL   SELECT N'Hallå' AS Text, N'Swedish' AS Language  ) SELECT *,    iif( s.Text = cast(cast(s.Text AS varchar(100)) AS nvarchar(100))      ,1,0) AS CastWasSuccessful FROM unicodeDataSource s Result Text Language CastWasSuccessful Hello English 1 Здравствуйте Russian 0 こんにちは Japanese 0 Hallå Swedish 1

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Yes, you can create circular precedence constraint chains in SSIS packages. At least if you automate! Using BIML (which has no check for stupidity). It does what it's told. So investigate your generated packages carefully. Probably your mysteriously failing master package arrived at this if you have the same symptoms as I had When running from Sql Server Agent : Unexpected Termination (No messages) When running in Visual Studio : Starting / Cancelled in output window. Hanging of Visual Studio Windows log  Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 16.2.29306.81, time stamp: 0x5d72c031 Faulting module name: DTS.dll, version: 2019.150.1301.433, time stamp: 0x5d1ee90e Exception code: 0xc00000fd 0xc00000fd  seem to indicate buffer overflow (infinite loop clue!) Update: This is reported by ClemJax in  https://github.com/varigence/BimlPit/issues/98

Right click your server, choose tasks/export Uncheck "Do not include user names and passwords in the export file" Save the export to a file Open the file in an editor and locate the tag RegisteredServers:ConnectionStringWithEncryptedPassword Copy the contents of password attribute Open powershell and paste the code below, after you amend it with your encrypted string. $base64pass = "PasteEncryptedPasswordHere" [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Security") | Out-Null [System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetString([System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData]::Unprotect([System.Convert]::FromBase64String($base64pass), $null, [System.Security.Cryptography.DataProtectionScope]::CurrentUser))

var metadataConnection = SchemaManager.CreateConnectionNode( "db_metadata" , RootNode.Connections[ "db" ].RenderedConnectionString); List< string > includedSchemas = new List< string >{ "schema1" }; List< string > includedTables = null ; var metadataSchema = metadataConnection.GetDatabaseSchema( includedSchemas, includedTables, ImportOptions.None); foreach ( var t in metadataSchema.TableNodes) { //perform biml magic }

declare    @quitWithSuccess tinyint = 1,   @quitWithFailure tinyint = 2,   @gotoNextStep tinyint = 3,   @gotoStep tinyint = 4