What do i mean by shell packages? You’re spot on – that’s an excellent question to begin with. For the purpose of this post, I define shell package as an empty package that is renamed appropriately and contains all the required connection managers.

It is a common pattern among SSIS… Read more

I really wanted to attent PASS Summit this year, I’ve never attended before. I was preparing myself mentally since the last summit, but things didn’t work out. Life happened. I’ve some personal obligations that I need to take care. I can’t talk much about these obligations here, but I can… Read more

If you are trying to generate Uniqueidentifier/Newid() in SSIS data flow, you will soon realize that there is no out-of-the-box transformation you could use. Fear not. Script Component can be used to create Uniqueidentifier columns.

In the below package, I’ve an OLE DB source. Then, i dragged script component to… Read more