InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comThu, 23 May 2013 10:20:42 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1298641-22-1.aspxThanks Andy. Appreciate your help.Others,Request you to advice if you have any inputs on this.Fri, 11 May 2012 10:09:46 GMTpawana.paulhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1298641-22-1.aspx[quote][b]pawana.paul (5/11/2012)[/b][hr]Good Question. This is required as there will be changes made to the columns at Source (adding or dropping columns). If we go with SSIS, we need to do mapping too.Please advice that SSIS is the better choice.[/quote]Now that is a much more complicated process...I have had colleagues who have done this in the past successfully using SSIS but notwithout some pretty complicated dynamic SQL and a combination of #Temp tables, agent jobs.Without this SSIS will pick up that column names have changed or no longer exist and fail as a consiquence without you manually amending the ETL'sSorry that may not be much help but as I've personally never had to overcome this challenge (yet) its all I can offer.AndyFri, 11 May 2012 09:56:47 GMTAndy Hyslophttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1298641-22-1.aspxGood Question. This is required as there will be changes made to the columns at Source (adding or dropping columns). If we go with SSIS, we need to do mapping too.Please advice that SSIS is the better choice.Fri, 11 May 2012 09:23:06 GMTpawana.paulhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1298641-22-1.aspxPersonally I would go with SSIS as it was created for this kind of work.There are many advantages of using SSIS to name but a few:- Good error handling possibilities- Bulk Inserts- Visibility of what is happening in the pipeline- ConfigurationsI'm sure there are more that will be added to the thread!A disadvantage of using SSIS is the appalling error messages and it can at times be a pig to work with (my personal opinion not a statement of fact!)Question why steps 1 & 2 what are your reasons for dropping and recreating the tables already in place?AndyFri, 11 May 2012 09:02:51 GMTAndy Hyslophttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1298641-22-1.aspxI would nearly always advise the SSIS route. It's more flexible and it enables you to do transformations that you can't (easily) do with T-SQL. It's also easy to handle errors and send notifications.Using a linked server is less secure since it increases the surface area of your server, giving another possible avenue of attack.JohnFri, 11 May 2012 08:59:17 GMTJohn Mitchell-245523http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1298641-22-1.aspxDear Experts,Need advice in planning. There are tables which needs to be exported to / imported from databases on different SQL instances DAILY and also want to have exception handlers or notifications of the daily run and the status (especially on failure of perticular table). Please let me know whether to go with SSIS or create a linked server and schedule Job also let me know the advantages and disadvantages over both. At the max the below steps will be involved:1. Drop the existing tables at destination2. Create Tables at destination3. Insert Data at destination.Fri, 11 May 2012 08:46:58 GMTpawana.paul