I spotted a new task in SSIS 2012 – Execute T-SQL Statement Task. It executes T-SQL statements, only Transact-SQL statements against SQL Server databases. Cool, but don’t get too excited. Why? Because you can neither parameterize the SQL nor save the results to a variable.

The task editor looks like below:

Only plain and static scripts can be executed, for which Execute SQL Task can be used anyway. So, I don’t see a specific need for this task and I don’t plan on using it in the near future. Do you agree?

~Sam.

Update: Please note, this task isn’t new in 2012. It existed in previous versions. I apologize for the incorrect information. Thanks to Devin Knight (b|t) for correcting me.