Chapter 18. Deploying and Managing Solutions in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services

After you finish developing your packages, you have to move them to the production server, where they are typically executed on a scheduled basis using SQL Server Agent Job Steps or by direct invocation through the DTExec tool. In any case, you have to make sure that your packages will be executed correctly, taking into consideration that the production server might have different resources than your development environment (for example, different drive letters) and also that the security context under which packages will be executed might be completely different from the one that you used in development. In this chapter, we present best practices for ...

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