SSIS: How to find the parent of a given package?

Question

I have an SSIS Project with about 100 packages, and it's difficult to find the execution order of it all. I don´t even know which one is the master package. That being said, my question is: Given a package, is there a way to determine where that particular package is being called? Or in other words, what is the precedence of that package?

Answer 1

In Visual Studio, use Edit >> Find and Replace >> Find in Files .

Find what: Name of Package

Look In: Entire Solution

Find Options: Look at these file types: *.dtsx

Will return a list of packages that reference the target package. Not ideal, but a quick and dirty way to get a list of all possible parents.

The child reference will appear as "<PackageName>ChildPackage.dtsx</PackageName>" .