Tim Van Wassenhove

Running an SSIS package from PowerShell (using DTExec) can be as simple as:

RunPackage -File 'C:\test.dtsx' -DatabaseHost '.' -DatabaseName 'TEST';

Here are the functions that make it this simple:

function GetDtExecPath {
    $DtsPath = (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Setup').SQLPath;
    $DtExecPath = (Resolve-Path "$DtsPath\Binn\DTExec.exe");
    $DtExecPath;
}

function GetDtExecPropertyPathValue() {
    param(
        $PropertyPath = '',
        $Value = ''
    );
    "$PropertyPath;\`"`"$Value\`"`"";
}

function RunPackage {
    param(
        $DtExecPath = (GetDtExecPath),
        $File = 'test.dtsx'
    );

    $Params = "/FILE $File";
    for($i = 0; $i -lt $Args.Length; $i += 2) {
        $PropertyPath = $Args[$i].SubString(1);
        $Value = $Args[$i+1];
        $PropertyPathValue = GetDtExecPropertyPathValue -PropertyPath $PropertyPath -Value $Value;
        $Params += " /SET $PropertyPathValue";
    } 

    &"$DtExecPath" $Params;
}