SSIS Archive

SSIS – TOKEN Expression

I've worked with SSIS for some time now, but a recent question and post pointed out an expression I'd never used before. We often have a need to split strings and pick out some portion of that

SSIS Catalog (SSISDB) Cleanup – Revisited

I wrote about cleaning up the SSIS Catalog a while back, but needed to revisit this recently for a different use and needed something that can run in an ongoing manner. My earlier post still works, but

Send Meaningful Errors for SSIS Packages

Recently, Kevin Hill (b | t ) posted on getting package errors from the SSIS catalog in a single query as opposed to clicking through the SSIS Reports and digging through pages.  I took that and ran

Handling Late-Arriving Members in SSIS

I was chatting with some other SQL Community members recently and the topic of handling late-arriving members for a warehouse load came up. I figured it was worth taking a couple of minutes to share the general

SSIS Catalog (SSISDB) Cleanup

I really appreciate what MS has done w/ the SSIS Catalog. We have built-in logging at a level that wasn’t possible in prior releases, but that comes at a cost. The default retention is pretty high (365

Exploring BIML

Getting Started I attended Varigence’s BIML Workshop last year prior to the PASS conference and got to learn a little BIML while seeing what it can do. Recently, I realized that I had a job to do

SSIS, MySQL, and invalid Dates–Take #2

A while back I posted an article on handling dates in select statements from MySQL. The idea was that I wanted a quick way to generate select statements for MySQL that would automatically set any invalid date

SSDT: Publishing Your Project

Build the project In order to successfully publish your project, it must first be able to build successfully. Start by building your project. Right-click the project and select “Build”. If the build is successful, the project can

Tales of a Lazy DBA–MySQL, SSIS, and “0” Dates

We’ve recently been tasked with converting a lot of MySQL Data into our system from a multi-tenant MySQL Database. We don’t have a fixed schedule to actually execute the imports because they’ll be on a “per customer”

SQL 2008 R2 – SSIS Data Export Oddities

I don’t know if anyone else has had these sorts of issues, but we work quite a bit with conversions of various source data into our SQL Server database. I recently was handed a backup from SQL