Creating Location Independent SSIS packages

Building SSIS packages and deploying them to production can be a challenge as connection strings and directory structures change. Longtime SQL Server guru Jacob Sebastian brings us a technique for building packages to make this easier.

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Populating Dimension Tables with the SCD Task

ETLing dimensions through SQL Server 2000 DTS, has more or less been quite a hassle, what with the lengthy ActiveX scripts and lookups that have to be performed. Enter SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: The Slowly Changing Dimension task has made it much simpler.

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Cleaning Address Data with SSIS Using a Web Service

This article describes how to call a web service to clean up address data from within a data flow.

Importing Poorly Formatted Text Files using SSIS

Importing text files is a common task for DBA's and Developers, but what happens when the text file is not properly formatted?

SQL Server Integration Services Automation

After completing a project with SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, author G Vijayakumar brings us his technique for an automated scheduling of various source data into a data warehouse with multiple packages.

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Pipeline Memory Limiter

Backpressure is an interesting internal memory limiter inside SSIS and in SQL Server 2008 you get to see when the limiter kicks in.