This white paper illustrates how Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) can be used in conjunction with commodity hardware or virtual machines running in Microsoft Azure to build elastic, highly available, and highly scalable ETL solutions.
2018-06-27
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2018-06-21
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An efficient and reliable method for reading CSV files with variable columns.
2018-06-12
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I am presenting an MS Excel VBA project which automates the display of SQL Server data tables.
2018-05-17
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A tip to auto detect data types for flat file sources in SSIS. Never manually enter them ever again!
2018-05-14
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This article shows how DefaultBufferMaxRows and DefaultBufferSize properties can be used to improve dataflow task performance.
2018-03-22
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In this article, we discuss how schema swapping method can be used to keep tables online during the load process.
2019-08-02 (first published: 2017-12-05)
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Run multiple instances of your package in parallel so that each instance processes a portion of the total number of files
2019-08-23 (first published: 2017-11-07)
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It is possible for a field in a character-delimited text file to contain a list of further-delimited values instead of the customary single value. This article demonstrates how to load such a file into a staging table, then use a CROSS APPLY query to parse the list of values into a related table.
2019-06-07 (first published: 2017-10-30)
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the integration and ETL (extract – transform – load) tool in the Microsoft Data Platform stack. SSIS is typically used in data warehousing scenarios, but can also be used in common data integration use cases or just to move data around. SSIS is used behind the scenes in the Maintenance Plans of SQL Server and in the Import/Export wizard.
2017-10-06
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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