A detailed blog exploring what's new in SSIS 2012
Part five of a eleven-part series of blogs

If you're wondering whether to upgrade to Integration Services 2012, or just want to know what differences there are between SSIS 2008 R2 and 2012, this blog should help you!

  1. Differences between Integration Services 2008 R2 and 2012
  2. Difference 1 - SSIS 2012 Looks Different!
  3. Difference 2 - How Variables are Treated in SSIS 2012
  4. Difference 3 - Choosing Tasks from the SSIS Toolbox
  5. Difference 4 - Shared Connections at Project Level (this blog)
  6. Difference 5 - Expression Tasks in 2012
  7. Difference 6 - Undoing and Redoing Commands
  8. Difference 7 - Easier to use Data Viewers
  9. Difference 8 - Deploying Packages in 2012
  10. Difference 9 - Parameters and Environments
  11. Differences 10 - Other Miscellaneous Changes

Posted by Andy Brown on 27 November 2014

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Difference 4 - Shared Connections at Project Level

If you want to connect to (for example) a SQL Server database in 2008 R2, you have to recreate the connection in every single package:

2008 R2 connection manager

In SQL Server 2008 R2 each package using a connection has its own connection manager.

 

In 2012 you can still use package-level connection managers, but you can also create connections at project level:

2012 connection manager

Here we assume that lots of packages are going to want to use the same connection, so we've created this as a project-level connection manager.

 

Time to look now at a brand new task in SSIS 2012: expression tasks.

  1. Differences between Integration Services 2008 R2 and 2012
  2. Difference 1 - SSIS 2012 Looks Different!
  3. Difference 2 - How Variables are Treated in SSIS 2012
  4. Difference 3 - Choosing Tasks from the SSIS Toolbox
  5. Difference 4 - Shared Connections at Project Level (this blog)
  6. Difference 5 - Expression Tasks in 2012
  7. Difference 6 - Undoing and Redoing Commands
  8. Difference 7 - Easier to use Data Viewers
  9. Difference 8 - Deploying Packages in 2012
  10. Difference 9 - Parameters and Environments
  11. Differences 10 - Other Miscellaneous Changes
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