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Setting up SSIS Auditing Part 2
Auditing in SSIS can be a real headache. In this two part series blog I am going to try to make it a little easier. You can also download my white paper and sample files on Auditing SSIS here. You can...
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Monitoring SQL Server with SSIS
SQL Server can be monitoring with SSIS packages using the DMVs in SQL Server. I did a webinar on this and you can watch the video at PragmaticWorks.com under the webinars page. You can download the...
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Sorting a String as a Number with T-SQL and SSIS
I was working on a Cube in Analysis Services for a client recently and needed to sort on a field that was a varchar but contained numeric data. I wanted to sort as if it was numeric. I could not just...
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Execute Multiple 2008/2005 SSIS Packages with a T-SQL
If you want to execute a set of SSIS packages in SQL Server 2008 or 2005, you can do this using T-SQL. First you will need a table with all of your package names on it. Then a While loop to execute...
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SSIS 2012 Copy or Duplicate Environments
In SSIS 2012 there is a great new feature called environments. They can be thought of as a collection of parameters or variables. One of the questions I get asked when teaching SSIS 2012 is “Can I...
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IT Pro Camp Jacksonville 2012
I spoke last weekend (6/16/2012) at the first ever IT Pro Camp in Jacksonville Florida. It was a great event with over 100 people attending. Breakfast and Lunch was provided with a great after event at...
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Studying and Learning Business Intelligence
I have been doing interviews for Pragmatic works for the past few years and I have come across quite a few people who wanted to be hired as a senior BI consultant and their skills were just not up to...
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Bulk Insert Task SSIS – Path Specified Cannot be Found or File Does Not Exist
When using the Bulk insert task in SSIS, you might encounter an error stating that The File Does Not Exist or The Path Specified Cannot be Found. This is usually due to the fact that the file must be...
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AS400 Program from SSIS
If you need to call an AS 400 program from an SSIS package this can easily be accomplished with an Execute SQL Task. This can be made even easier with two variables and an expression too. The AS400...
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Pivoting weird data in SSIS – Sort of…
Sometimes we get data in some bad forms. For example look at the below table: The names and the amounts are comma separated in two different columns. Let’s imagine we need to get this data into a table...
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Environment Variables in SSIS Packages and Configuration Tables
Configuration tables are a best practice in just about any SSIS environment. They make it easy to update multiple packages from a single change. But one of the issues with configuration tables is the...
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Execute SSIS Packages with a Macro in BIDS
When running SSIS packages in BIDS it is common to click on the green arrow at the top of BIDS to run a package. One problem that can occur when using this button is the deployment of project and the...
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Handling Large Many to Many bridge tables
In some scenarios you will need to create a many to many relationship in your cube in SSAS. One of the problems that arise from many to many bridge tables are the size of these tables. In this example...
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Loop Through Excel Files in SSIS
You can loop through excel files using SSIS. This will use the For Each Loop container and a data flow task. First Create a variable named strExcelfile as a string variable; you can leave the value...
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SSIS Records on the Same Row – kind of like pivot
If you have two or more records on the same row, and need to write each record on its own row in a destination, you have two choices. You can do this in series or parallel in a single data flow in...
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SSIS Pivot on bad data
The pivot transform in SSIS is already a pain to use. When you have bad data it makes it even worse. In this blog I am going to show how to handle bad data when using the pivot transform. You should...
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SSIS Execute SQL error – No disconnected record set is available
If you get the error in SSIS that says: …failed with the following error: “No disconnected record set is available for the specified SQL statement.”. Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query,...
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SSIS For Loop Skip Files
When running a For Each Loop through a set of files, sometimes you will have specific files that you do not want to load. For example, I have a set of files named: Abc.txtMno.txtRts.txtWln.txtXyz.txt...
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SSIS – Using Kill with SP_Who to Break locks
The dreaded table lock can occur and cause your SSIS packages to fail. A popular request I receive asks “How can I get rid of these table locks?” This blog will show you how to build a package that...
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Using Configuration Files in SSIS
Now in SQL 2012 we have parameters that make it easy, but configuration files are still an option and I still see a lot of my clients using them even on 2012 due to several reasons, but mostly because...
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