Metadata Discovery in SSIS 2012 not working with temp tables
SQL Server Integration Services is a tidy bit of kit and an absolute must have on any SQL Server developer or administrator’s toolbelt. However, it is as frustrating as it is sublime, with many...
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Microsoft BI 2012: A Year In Review
With the year drawing to a close, I thought it would be the perfect time to recap the major developments in Microsoft Business Intelligence throughout 2012. Unsurprisingly, the launch of SQL Server...
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Extending the ForEach File Enumerator in SSIS
One of the primary reasons for using SSIS is to process multiple files, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) data, and feed it into a destination, for example, a data warehouse. Built-in components such as...
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Notes from building a Custom ForEach Enumerator in SSIS
I recently posted about a quandary in which I found myself that led to me building my own extended ForEach File Enumerator in SSIS. All things considered, it was a reasonably straightforward...
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Is Hadoop the right tool for the job?
I recently posted some thoughts regarding Microsoft’s Windows-compatible Hadoop implementation, HDInsight. I was investigating it for a project that I figured would benefit from a distributed...
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Installing SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012
As if renaming the accurately titled Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) to the rather ambiguous SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) wasn’t bad enough, in December, Microsoft’s latest SSDT release...
View ArticleOptimising SSIS to read from a view using OLE DB Source
I’ve really been neglecting the blog of late and have been taking a bit of a break from a lot of extra curricular business intelligence and data reading. I figured it was about time to get back to...
View ArticleCase sensitivity in SSIS Lookup Transformation
Something that catches out a lot of new SSIS developers. The caching mode used for a Lookup Transformation may affect case sensitivity. The Full Cache option is case sensitive by default. Partial and...
View ArticleMapping C# DateTime to SQL Server datetime2 via SSIS
With SQL Server 2008, Microsoft introduced the new, improved datetime2 format. This newer time storage format is great, because it takes up less storage space, plus you have control over precision and...
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Debugging Errors in SSIS Data Quality Services Cleansing Component
As part of Microsoft’s push to include business users in the Business Intelligence space, the addition of Data Quality Services to SQL Server’s feature set opened up the ETL process to the people who,...
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