Trace File Source Adapter

by Darren and Allan 1 May 2009 08:40
The Trace File Source adapter is a useful addition to your SSIS toolbox.  It allows you to read 2005 and 2008 profiler traces stored as .trc files and read them into the Data Flow.  From there you can perform filtering and analysis using the power of SSIS. There is no need for a SQL Serv... [More]

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Attunity Oracle CDC Solution for SSIS - Beta

by Allan Mitchell 18 Feb 2009 12:23
We in no way work for Attunity but we were asked to test drive a beta version of their Oracle CDC solution for SSIS.  Everybody should know that moving more data than you need to takes too much time and uses resources that may better be employed doing something else.  Change data Capture i... [More]

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SSAS Cache Warming Using SSIS

by Allan Mitchell 31 Oct 2008 08:22
Having your users walk into a cold cache on a morning is something that will cause them to have slower running queries initially.  Cache warming takes care of a lot of that by executing typical queries against the newly processed cube and thereby building the cache ready for your users when the... [More]

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Expressions

by Darren Green 28 Oct 2008 08:40
Data Flow Property Expressions Property expressions within the data flow are not immediately obvious. Whilst most pipeline or data flow components do support them for their properties, the expression is not generally exposed through the component user interface, neither is the Expressions property ... [More]

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Expression Date Functions

by Darren Green 28 Oct 2008 07:58
Date Parts Expressions support a range of date related functions such as DATEADD, with the same basic syntax to that found in T-SQL. Whilst the familiarity is very helpful, the difference that catches me out is the format of date part which must be quoted. T-SQL allows this: DATEADD(n, -10, GETD... [More]

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Extending SSIS with custom Data Flow components (Presentation)

by Darren Green 6 Mar 2008 14:00
Download the slides and sample code from my Extending SSIS with custom Data Flow components presentation, first presented at the SQLBits II (The SQL) Community Conference. Abstract Get some real-world insights into developing data flow components for SSIS. This starts with an introduction t... [More]

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Multicast Transform and Threading in SQL Server 2008

by Allan Mitchell 19 Sep 2007 14:00
The Multicast transform in SSIS 2005 enables us to take 1 input dataset and from it generate n output datasets that are an exact copy of the input dataset which is extremely useful at times and we have used it on a number of projects. The downside is that those outputs are synchronous outputs and ... [More]

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Pipeline Memory Limiter

by Allan Mitchell 10 Sep 2007 14:00
Michael Entin has blogged about something that you see now, well you feel the effects anyway, in SQL Server 2005 but it isn't as visible as it should be but is really important. Backpressure is an interesting internal memory limiter inside SSIS and in SQL Server 2008 you get to see when the li... [More]

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Handling different row types in the same file

by Allan Mitchell 26 May 2005 14:00
Sometimes source systems like to send us text files that are a little out of the ordinary. More and more frequently we are seeing people being sent master and detail or parent and child rows in the same file. Handling this in DTS is painful. In SSIS that changes. In this article we'll take you... [More]

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Log Events and Pipeline Events

by Guest 6 May 2005 14:00
I was about to write about data flow buffer size configuration properties but need to get this one out first so that we can refer to it. The Data Flow task (internally and in the object model also called the 'Pipeline') logs some pretty interesting information that describe the i... [More]

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Parallel Execution Properties

by Guest 5 May 2005 14:00
Adjusting the following properties can have an impact on parallelization during execution: 1. MaxConcurrentExecutables This is a property on the Package. It defines how many tasks can be run concurrently. A value of -1 means the number of processors and when hyperthreading is turned on... [More]

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Generating Surrogate Keys

by Guest 4 Apr 2005 14:00
(By Jamie Thomson) Introduction Surrogate keys are generally considered fundamental building blocks of a data warehouse. They are used as identifiers for dimensional members and enable us to manage slowly changing dimensions. SSIS does not contain a built in component for generating s... [More]

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