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Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:57 AM

SSIS Expression Language and Dynamic Property Expressions

Introduction This post is part of a series titled An Introduction to the SSIS Expression Language . In this post, I demonstrate the SSIS Expression Language and Dynamic Property Expressions. To build the demo project described in this article you will
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 8:12 PM

SSIS Expression Language and the Conditional Split Transformation

Introduction This post is part of a series titled An Introduction to the SSIS Expression Language . In this post, I demonstrate the SSIS Expression Language and the Conditional Split Transformation. To build the demo project described in this article
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 12:03 AM

SSIS Expression Language and the Derived Column Transformation

Introduction This post is part of a series titled An Introduction to the SSIS Expression Language . In this post, I demonstrate the SSIS Expression Language and the Derived Column Transformation. To build the demo project described in this article you
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Friday, January 30, 2009 12:02 AM

SSIS Expression Language and Variables

Introduction This post is part of a series titled An Introduction to the SSIS Expression Language . In this post, I demonstrate the SSIS Expression Language and Variables. To build the demo project described in this article you will need SSIS 2005 and
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:00 AM

An Introduction to the SSIS Expression Language

The SSIS Expression Language is one of the steeper slopes on the SSIS learning curve. Many database professionals have never been exposed to the syntax. In this series, I provide examples that demonstrate common uses for the SSIS Expression Language.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:06 AM

SSIS Design Pattern - Collect Enterprise SQL Server Database Metadata With SSIS

Introduction A few months back I received an email from a nice lady who was beginning to work with SSIS. She was trying to use SSIS to automate metadata collection in her enterprise and she had made a good start in the package she attached to the email.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:23 PM

New SSIS 101 Article!

My latest SSIS 101 article - SSIS 101: Object Variables, ResultSets, and Foreach Loop Containers - is live at SQL Server Central today! Enjoy! :{> Andy
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Saturday, February 09, 2008 12:01 AM

Introducing Change Data Capture, SSIS, and SQL Server 2008 CTP5 (Nov 2007)

Introduction On Thursday, 24 Jan 2008, I presented New Features In SSIS 2008 to the Richmond SQL Server Users Group . Most of the presentation was dedicated to demonstrating Change Data Capture (CDC) interacting with SQL Server 2008 Integration Services.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:59 PM

SSIS Design Pattern - ETL Instrumentation, Part 4

Introduction This post is part of a series of posts on ETL Instrumentation. In Part 1 we built a database to hold collected SSIS run time metrics and an SSIS package to deomnstrate how and why we would load metrics into the database. In Part 2 we expanded
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 4:13 PM

SSIS Design Pattern - ETL Instrumentation, Part 3

Introduction This post is part of a series of posts on ETL Instrumentation. In Part 1 we built a database to hold collected SSIS run time metrics and an SSIS package to deomnstrate how and why we would load metrics into the database. In Part 2 we expanded
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 7:41 AM

SSIS Design Pattern - ETL Instrumentation, Part 2

Introduction This post is part of a series of posts on ETL Instrumentation. In Part 1 we built a database to hold collected SSIS run time metrics and an SSIS package to deomnstrate how and why we would load metrics into the database. In Part 2 we will
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Sunday, October 14, 2007 6:28 AM

SSIS Design Pattern - Read a DataSet From Variable In a Script Task

Introduction One of the things I appreciate about SSIS is the script elements. There is a lot of functionality built into the engine out of the box but I like the idea of having a Script Task on the Control Flow and a Script Component on the Data Flow
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Sunday, July 15, 2007 3:51 PM

SSIS Design Pattern - ETL Instrumentation, Part 1

Introduction SSIS is a fantastic ETL engine. When I build and ETL solution in SSIS, I like to collect runtime metrics. Why? I use the data initially to determine a baseline for performance and to determine, in some cases, if I'm loading within a defined
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Monday, May 21, 2007 11:35 AM

SSIS Design Pattern - Incremental Loads

Introduction Loading data from a data source to SQL Server is a common task. It's used in Data Warehousing, but increasingly data is being staged in SQL Server for non-Business-Intelligence purposes. Maintaining data integrity is key when loading data
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Sunday, April 08, 2007 2:05 PM

SSIS Design Pattern - Custom Error Handling

I was working on error handling with SSIS recently and came up with what I believe is a snappy way to address it. The solution presented below is partial. For one, I would encourage you to use a database table to house errors; for another, I would encourage
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