How not to handle a compensation step on failure in an SSIS package

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Published on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:24:00 GMT Indexed on 2010/06/17 21:34 UTC
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What were you thinking?

Just stumbed across this where I'm working. Someone created a global error handler for a package that included this SQL step: DELETE FROM Table WHERE DateDiff(MI, ExportedDate, GetDate()) < 5 So if the package runs for longer than 5 minutes and fails, nothing gets cleaned up. Please people, don't do this... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

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