Have you ever wanted to dump all the SSIS packages stored in msdb out to files? Of course you have, who wouldn’t? Right? Well, at least one person does because this was the subject of a thread (save all ssis packages to file) on the SSIS forum earlier today.

Some of you may have already figured out a way of doing this but for those that haven’t here is a nifty little script that will do it for you and it uses our favourite jack-of-all tools … Powershell!!

Imagine I have the following package folder structure on my Integration Services server (i.e. in [msdb]):

There are two packages in there called “20110111 Chaining Expression components” & “Package”, I want to export those two packages into a folder structure that mirrors that in [msdb]. Here is the Powershell script that will do that:

Param($SQLInstance = "localhost")

#####Add all the SQL goodies (including Invoke-Sqlcmd)#####
add-pssnapin sqlserverprovidersnapin100 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
add-pssnapin sqlservercmdletsnapin100 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
cls 

$Packages =  Invoke-Sqlcmd -MaxCharLength 10000000 -ServerInstance $SQLInstance -Query "WITH cte AS (
                                                                        SELECT    cast(foldername as varchar(max)) as folderpath, folderid
                                                                        FROM    msdb..sysssispackagefolders
                                                                        WHERE    parentfolderid = '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
                                                                        UNION    ALL
                                                                        SELECT    cast(c.folderpath + '\' + f.foldername  as varchar(max)), f.folderid
                                                                        FROM    msdb..sysssispackagefolders f
                                                                        INNER    JOIN cte c        ON    c.folderid = f.parentfolderid
                                                                    )
                                                                    SELECT    c.folderpath,p.name,CAST(CAST(packagedata AS VARBINARY(MAX)) AS VARCHAR(MAX)) as pkg
                                                                    FROM    cte c
                                                                    INNER    JOIN msdb..sysssispackages p    ON    c.folderid = p.folderid
                                                                    WHERE    c.folderpath NOT LIKE 'Data Collector%'"

Foreach ($pkg in $Packages)
{
    $pkgName = $Pkg.name
    $folderPath = $Pkg.folderpath
    $fullfolderPath = "c:\temp\$folderPath\"
    if(!(test-path -path $fullfolderPath))
    {
        mkdir $fullfolderPath | Out-Null
    }
    $pkg.pkg | Out-File -Force -encoding ascii -FilePath "$fullfolderPath\$pkgName.dtsx"
}

To run it simply change the “localhost” parameter of the server you want to connect to either by editing the script or passing it in when the script is executed. It will create the folder structure in C:\Temp (which you can also easily change if you so wish – just edit the script accordingly). Here’s the folder structure that it created for me:

Notice how it is a mirror of the folder structure in [msdb].

Hope this is useful!

@Jamiet