Earlier this week, I confirmed two full-day seminars I’ll be delivering in conjunction with SQL Saturday events this fall. I’ve got a brand new course entitled “Building Better SSIS Packages” which I’ll be delivering in Denver and Boston. Here’s a brief into to this course: SQL Server Integration Services is deceptively easy to use. With a few hours of instruction…
During data load or transformation processes, capturing a distinct row number for incoming data can be beneficial for the ETL process itself, as well as for use in the destination database. Having an arbitrary, incrementing row number assigned to each row can help to determine the order in which the rows of data were processed, and can provide a unique…
Now that the details have been finalized, I can announce that a new SSIS class coming up this fall. My Linchpin People cohort Andy Leonard and I will be delivering our Advanced SSIS training class in the Washington, DC area in December. This class is four days in length, ideally suited for experienced SSIS developers who want to take their skills…
The Advanced SSIS training course is designed for ETL professional with at least 2 years experience using SSIS. This can be either a 3- or 4-day course, depending on whether lab exercises are included. Advanced SSIS Training Class (3- or 4-day course) If you are looking to take your SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) skills to the next level, this course…
Among the training courses I offer, this is one of the most popular. This course is an adaptation and expansion of a session I delivered at the SQL PASS Summit in 2014, and was ranked as one of the top 10 sessions (out of approximately 200) at the event. Using that session as a starting point, I have built a half-day…
In my most recent post in this series, I talked about how to use the SSIS object variable as an ADO recordset as a source in a data flow. By loading the result set of a query into this variable, the contents of the variable can be read by an SSIS script component and sent out through the SSIS pipeline….
Object variables in SSIS are incredibly versatile, allowing the storage of almost any type of data (even .NET objects). In my last post on this topic, I demonstrated how an SSIS object variable containing a .NET DataSet object could be used by the for each loop container as an iterator. In this post, I’ll continue the discussion by showing how…
Some time back I wrote about how to use the script component to parse out ragged data files in SSIS. In this post, I’ll continue the discussion to describe how to handle mixed format data files – specifically, those with several different record types in each file. In a perfect world, a flat file will contain a single record type….
When I think about Baltimore, I think about Edgar Allan Poe. Baltimore was Poe’s one-time home, and in fact there is a museum located in a home in which he once lived. I’ve been a Poe fan since high school, and am looking forward to seeing some of the Poe-related sights when I’m in town next month. Why am I…
This week, PASS announced the Best of PASS Summit 2014, a collection of the 10 highest-rated sessions from last fall’s PASS Summit in Seattle. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that my session, “Building Bullet-Resistant SSIS Packages”, was among these. All of these sessions (including lots of other content) are available for viewing on the PASS TV channel on YouTube….