Color coded and indicator status codes

One small but welcome improvement to SSIS 2012 has been a change in the way that status information about a component is displayed when running a package.

As shown in the following screenshot, the visual indicator is still in color, but also gives a non-color based indicator (a tick or a cross) of the state of the task after running:

Color coded and indicator status codes

This is good news for those of us who are both developers and red-green color blind (around 7 to 10 percent of the male population, < 0.5 percent of the female population). Furthermore, it is useful when printing a black and white screenshot of a running package for documentation ...

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