SSIS Connection not found in package

Question

I\'m kind of new to SSIS programming, and I\'m having some problems deploying an SSIS package.

This package runs correctly on my PC, does everything it needs to do ..

Answer 1

I determined that this problem was a corrupt connection manager by identifying the specific connection that was failing. I'm working in SQL Server 2016 and I have created the SSISDB catalog and I am deploying my projects there.

Here's the short answer. Delete the connection manager and then re-create it with the same name. Make sure the packages using that connection are still wired up correctly and you should be good to go. If you're not sure how to do that, I've included the detailed procedure below.

To identify the corrupt connection, I did the following. In SSMS, I opened the Integration Services Catalogs folder, then the SSISDB folder, then the folder for my solution, and on down until I found my list of packages for that project.

By right clicking the package that failed, going to reports>standard reports>all executions, selecting the last execution, and viewing the "All Messages" report I was able to isolate which connection was failing. In my case, the connection manager to my destination. I simply deleted the connection manager and then recreated a new connection manager with the same name.

Subsequently, I went into my package, opened the data flow, found that some of my destinations had lit up with the red X. I opened the destination, re-selected the correct connection name, re-selected the target table, and checked the mappings were still correct. I had six destinations and only three had the red X but I clicked all of them and made sure they were still configured correctly.