Placing Checkpoints

Checkpointing refers to placing a marker, or checkpoint, in the control flow so that, if a package fails, you can restart the package from the point of failure. Execution information is saved into a checkpoint file. Figure 9–25 shows this property option. If you choose to use checkpointing in SSIS packages, you'll want to include this capability in the initial package design of all affected packages.

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Figure 9–25. To enable checkpointing in a package, you must set the CheckpointUsage property to either IfExists or Always and then set three other properties.

To implement checkpointing in your SSIS package, you must configure ...

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