SSIS export to excel

Question

Using SSMS I created an export a query to Excel and saved it as a DTSX package. Imported this DTSX package into a BIDS project to make it run hourly and export a excel file

Answer 1

Most of the problems arise due to these situations:

• Data source connection or File access issue (when the user running the sql agent doesn't have the right permissions to the db or to the destination file).

• Package protection level (pwd are sensitive data, and sometimes are not copied depending on the protection level).

• 64bit issue (this a common one on XL exports. Since there's no Jet Driver for 64bit systems, when running on a 64bit OS you need to either use the 32bit DTEXEC in your sql job or set the "Use 32bit runtime" option, it's on the "Execution options" tab when you're creating a SSIS job step, check the image on link below for seeing it).

32Bit runtime option image

For information on this topic, have a look at this article, it has detailed information on situations when ssis packages run on BIDS but not on SQL jobs..

How do I troubleshoot SSIS packages failed execution in a SQL Agent job?

Hope this helps you..

Kind regards,