Search for a column in all SSIS packages in a Folder

Question

Hi 
We are changing the datatype of one of a column for a  huge table from INT to BIGINT. All SPs are being changed to accomodate this change. 
All the SSIS packges havebeen downloaded to a folder. And I need to find the instances of this column in around 250 packages. 
Is there a quick way to do this instead of opening up each package and looking for the column?
I dont have access to MSDB so my search should be based o nthe packages inthe folder.
Thanks 
rajiv 
Rajiv

Answer 1

You can do it using ssis package
Create a table with two columns
Table (PackageXML,PackageName)
one a xml column and another varchar column for this
1. Add a SSIS package with ForEachLoop container. point to folder containing your SSIS packages. Choose filetype as *.dtsx
2. Inside loop add a variable to get package names. choose option as Fully qualified (FilePath)
3. Add another variable and store filename alone extracted from above created variable (FileName)
4. Add a variable to hold query (Query) and assign an expression to it as
"INSERT YourTable (PackageXMl,PackageName)
SELECT *,'" + @[User::FileName] + "'
FROM OPENROWSET(BULK '" + @[User::FilePath] + "',SINGLE_BLOB) x"
5. Add a SQL task inside loop, choose SQLSourceType as variable and point to Query variable
Execute this package. This will cause it to load the code for all packages inside your table
Once this is done then you can just query the table as below to get package with column reference
SELECT PackageName
FROM Table
WHERE CAST(PackageXML AS varchar(max)) LIKE '%columnname%'
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