Execute Process Task (Getting rid of xp_cmdshell)

Running a batch file through SSIS??

 

Most of us have been running commands on command prompt using SQL Server. And we know for these commands to run from SQL Server, we need to enable xp_cmdshell option of SQL Server.
Did we ever wonder why xp_cmdshell is disabled by default? I guess majority will say no.
There is a security issue attached with xp_cmdshell.
May be in your production environment, you cannot enable this option. Then what will you do? How will you run such commands?
Well, through SSIS you can achieve this task. You can write all your commands in a batch file and execute this batch file from ‘Execute Process Task’.
Now you don’t need to enable xp_cmdshell