Dynamic SSRS report documentation via a ReportServer.dbo.Catalog query
This article demonstrates a method of generating SSRS report documentation by using an SSRS report that queries the ReportServer.dbo.Catalog table.
2017-04-11
11,065 reads
Stan Kulp
Execute a data-driven SSRS subscription from SSIS to archive a report
This article demonstrates how to generate and save an SSRS report to a network folder when an SSIS package is executed.
2016-06-30
4,480 reads
Create/write to an Excel 2007/2010 spreadsheet from an SSIS package
Excel spreadsheets are useful for distributing data generated by SQL Server. EPPlus is an open source .NET library that reads/writes Excel 2007/2010 files using the Open Office XML format (XLSX). It is a mature project, and plays well with SSIS.
2016-01-22 (first published: 2014-02-11)
19,295 reads
Trigger an Email of an SSRS Report from an SSIS Package
This article demonstrates how to trigger an SSRS subscription to email a report from an Execute SQL Task using SQL Server Agent and the ReportServer.dbo.AddEvent stored procedure.
2015-06-19 (first published: 2013-03-19)
27,411 reads
Dynamically change background color in SSRS reports using custom code
This article demonstrates the use of custom code and cell expressions referencing that custom code to toggle the background color of groups of rows in an SSRS report based upon value-changes in one of the fields.
2014-10-27
33,880 reads
SQL-only ETL using a bulk insert into a temporary table (SQL Spackle)
This article demonstrates a method of importing a data file directly into a temporary table and selectively inserting data from the temporary table into a SQL Server table, all in a single set of SQL commands.
2014-07-22
12,782 reads
Encrypt a file from SSIS using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
This article demonstrates how to create a CLR assembly that can encrypt or decrypt a file with AES-256 cryptography, how to reference the CLR assembly from an SSIS script task, and how to generate an MD5 checksum file so that its recipient can confirm the integrity of the encrypted file.
2014-05-13
6,231 reads
How to create an SSIS conditional data flow task
This article demonstrates how to selectively channel records from a flat-file data source to separate destination tables in an SSIS package using a combination of multicast, data-conversion and conditional-split data flow transformation elements within a data flow task.
2014-04-10
16,490 reads
SFTP, encrypt or compress data files in SSIS using custom components
SQL Server Integration Services does not provide native SFTP, encryption or archiving task components. This article presents a set of open source custom task components that provides these functions.
2014-03-13
8,425 reads
How to implement SHA-2 in SQL Server 2005 or 2008 with a CLR assembly
SQL Server 2012 supports SHA-256 and SHA-512 through the HASHBYTES() function, but earlier versions of SQL Server do not. SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 can, however, be implemented in SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 with the CLR assembly described in this article.
2013-10-07
6,022 reads
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