Sorting packages

Case
Microsoft finally added sorting in Managment Studio 2008 (SSMS) and Visual Studio 2008, but for those poor developers who are still working with 2005 (me, a couple of weeks ago) where it wasn't a standard feature, there are couple of solutions to accomplish an alphabetical sorted list of packages.

Sorting in Visual Studio 2008

Solution
Sorting in Managment Studio 2005
The sorting is done by a store procedure named sp_dts_listpackages. You can alter this procedure to accomplish a sorted list. The bottommost row has been added. Your can find the stored procedure in de MSDB database under System Stored Procedures.

USE [msdb]
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_dts_listpackages]
  @folderid uniqueidentifier
AS
  SELECT
      name,
      id,
      description,
      createdate,
      folderid,
      datalength(packagedata),
      vermajor,
      verminor,
      verbuild,
      vercomments,
      verid
  FROM
      sysdtspackages90
  WHERE
      [folderid] = @folderid
  ORDER BY NAME -- Added this row



That's better!

 









Sorting in Visual Studio 2005
You can do that manually by editing the .dtproj file and sort the xml nodes, but someone made a tool for it which adds some handy buttons to Visual Studio:

The tool can be found at:
http://www.sqldbatips.com/showarticle.asp?ID=78