Greetings everyone !
I'm in process of migrating few packages from SSIS 2008 to SSIS 2012 . The packages are migrated and are successfully deployed over to SSIS2012 SSISDB Catalog ( Integration Services Catalog /SSISDB/Projects/Project Name/Package Name ) .
When deployed projects to SSIDB catalog using Project model deployment , I was anticipating the .dtsx meta data are saved some where in SSISDB database ( in previous versions , Packages when deployed to MSDB saves package metadata inside sysssispackages
table object ) , But The Project file .ispac seems to be creating and saved on a file system . I think i viewed the SSIDB database views , they only have references to the project/Executions but no actual .dtsx meta data .
1) While executing packages ( Ryt click and execute from SSISDB Catalog OR Scheduling it via agent ) SSISDB Catalog seems to be referencing the package via Physical .ispac file saved on File System and then execute it with configured parameters ??
2) What benefit do i get as a part of SSISDB catalog deployment other than the parameter/Environment features ? I'm specially concerned about backup of my package/Project objects .
Thanks in advance for your pointers and help .
Rajkumar Yelugu