We have hundreds of SSIS packages (big database manipulation programs that Microsoft intends you to view and edit through a GUI). Having to open hundreds of things in a GUI to do some chore (never mind what) is always tedious. So I was delighted to learn that the packages are saved as XML and the XML can be retrieved by the following SQL query: 

SELECT  CONVERT(XML, CONVERT(VARBINARY(MAX), packagedata)) AS XMLText
FROM msdb.dbo.sysssispackages

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This query works when I submit it in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.

But imagine my sorrow when I tried the same query in DBI and got 

DBD::ODBC::st fetch failed: [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 10.0]
+String data, right truncation (SQL-01004)

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This is with LongReadLen set to 2147483647, the largest allowed.

So XML parsing of these objects is still tantalizingly out of reach of my Perl programs.

Must I confine myself to Microsoft's own proprietary tools?

In reply to How to pull XML out of SSIS so I can study it with XPath by Narveson

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