Task Factory is a software product created by Pragmatic Works. It provides many custom SSIS components which help developers creating SSIS packages become more efficient. And as we all know, when we are more efficient, we are more productive. In this nugget, I’m going to show you how to use the Compression Task to zip and unzip a file.

Here are the key features and details from PragmaticWorks.com about this task:

Compresses or decompresses a file or directory. Many companies struggle with transmitting files larger than 1 GB. Our Compression Task will compress files within SSIS by up to 90%, allowing greater speed and less network space.

Check out this quick video to find out more.

More Videos in this Series:

• Advanced Email and SMS Task
• File Properties task
• Terminator Destination
• Address Parse Transform
• Compression Task
• Data Cleansing Transform
• Data Validation Transform
• Email Source and Delete Email Task
• SFTP Task
• Surrogate Key Transform

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