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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 expand on our database and the SSIS package to annotate version metadata, manage error ...

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 just in case. Last month I used a Script Task to build a more flexible FTP ...

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 window.   I refer to this process of collecting ...