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The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager failed with error code 0xC0202009

I had one of those annoying problems with executing a SSIS package that took up most of the morning today (and a couple of hours yesterday) where you get an error which many people have had, but none of their solutions work. I guess it is such a generic error code it can relate to many different issues hence dozens of different (wrong) suggestions. What confused matters was that although it completed successfully in SSDT, it failed when being validated on our newly created SSISDB Catalog. I didn't know whether it was a problem with the package and/or its parameters or the SSISDB Catalog installation or Environment.

If you haven't set up an Integration Services Catalog (a new feature of SQL 2012) yet I definitely think it is worth looking at. I found an excellent guide here that takes you through it all.

In our case we had two connection managers, the source was a table in a SQL Server 2012 database and the destination a table in an Access 2010 database. The server with the Integration Services Catalog (SSISDB) was on a 64 bit SQL 2012 cluster so the first thing I had to do was install the Access 2010 64 bit drivers on each node. This was painless and didn't require a boot or anything.

I then deployed the SSIS solution to the server, configured the packages parameters and the SSISDB's Environment variables but kept getting an error similar to this, when I ran the Validate command.

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I ensured that the domain account that SQL Server (and the Agent) had permissions to the share that the Access database was on. I tried it with and without using the SSISDB Environment variables. In the end it turned out to be something I had come across before: running a SSIS package developed on a 32 bit OS (the developers workstation) on a 64 bit server. To resolve this I made some changes to the package in SSDT, I changed the ForcedExecutionValueType property to Int64 and changed the DelayValidation property from False to True.

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I did this on my workstation, redeployed the solution to the server and ran the Validate command which succeeded.

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I then created a SQL Agent job to execute the package on a schedule which also succeeded.

Hope this helps someone.

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  1. Unknown12 February 2019 at 01:16

    You are awesome! This really worked. I spent good bit of my day today trying to resolve it. Thank you, thank you, thank you

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