Andy Leonard

  • Interests: SQL Server, Integration Services, Managing Technical Teams, Faith, Family, Farming.

Stairway to Integration Services

Flexible Source Locations - Level 16 of the Stairway to Integration Services

Integration Services can be used to load data from a number of source files stored in different folders. This next level in the Stairway Series for Integration Services shows exactly how you can use parameters, variables and the ForEach Loop Container to do this.

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2019-03-26 (first published: )

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Stairway to Integration Services

Updating Rows in Incremental Loads – Level 4 of the Stairway to Integration Services

Part four of this stairway series examines the process of updating the data in an existing table in a load. MVP Andy Leonard talks about the way in which packages can handle changes in a repeatable fashion.

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2019-03-26 (first published: )

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