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Read contents of a file to variable – SSIS

Sometimes you will find the need to import a file to a variable using SSIS. In this post, I'll use Script Task to read contents of a flat file into a variable.

OPENROWSET (T-SQL) – Sometimes You Have to Stop and Smell the Roses

Ever been in the situation where you're so fixated on debugging an error that you fail to see the solution which has been staring you in the face the whole time? Me too. The other day I was trying to import data from an Excel spreadsheet into a SQL Server...

SSIS Tutorial - Getting started with SSIS - Part 6: Import Export Wizard Part 1 - Sudeep Raj

As I mentioned in the last chapter, we will look into our very first SSIS package. There are multiple ways to build an SSIS package. The simplest way to do so is Import export wizard. You can start the SQL Server Import & Export wizard by various ways....

Hadoop Interoperability in Microsoft SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse

Hadoop Interoperability in Microsoft SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse: In the data deluge faced by businesses, there is also an increasing need to store and analyze vast amounts of unstructured data including data from sensors, devices, bots and crawlers....

SinghVikash Blog - SSIS: Read and Export Excel data from nth Row

This post shows how we can read and export data rom excel starting from nth row. In SSIS we can read excel data starting from any number of row. Considering a scenario we have a excel file like below screen and we need to read data of Row 3 to Row 14 for...

#0135 - SQL Server – SSMS – Tutorial – 10 - Troubleshooting (L200)

All systems are susceptible to failure. No software is perfect, and therefore it is natural that SSMS too will fail. Today, I have put together some of the most common failures that I have experienced with SSMS and their known workarounds. The reason...

SSIS Tutorial - Getting started with SSIS - Part 5: Data Flow Task - Sudeep Raj

Now we come to the heart and soul of SSIS "DATA FLOW TASK" aka DFT. As the name suggests, it is a task. What kind of task? Data Flow Task that literally means a task where DATA flows. That's exactly what ETL does, Extract Transform & Load...

Datta's Ramblings on Business Intelligence 'N' Life - Extracting Report URL from ReportServer database in SSRS

I was working on a report for monitoring the usage of reports on a Report Server instance. As part of that, I wanted to display a list of reports with values for various metrics along with few additional links under each of the reports.

#0134 - SQL Server – SSMS – Tutorial – 09 - Integrating with peripheral services & other SQL Server tools (L200)

As mentioned in Part 01 of this tutorial series, one of the key responsibilities of SSMS was to replace the erstwhile SQL Server Enterprise Manager \u2013 the interface that is used to manage & maintain the SQL Server instance configuration. In addition...

SSIS - Delete files older than retention period from folder with parameter using Script Task in SQL Server

After using some of the ways to delete the files from the particular folder like Delete file using Script Task and File System Task in SSIS. We have seen such methods and used logic to get the files from the loop container and process to delete them and...