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Execute Process Task – SSIS 2012 Tutorial Videos

  I’ve created another video of SSIS 2012 Tutorial Videos series. In this video samples of Execute Process Task illustrated. Execute Process Task provide ability to run executable files from SSIS package. In this Video there are two samples of working with Execute Process Task: Compressing Files (Archiving) into zip files formatted with date and Read more about Execute Process Task – SSIS 2012 Tutorial Videos[…]

Web Service Task – SSIS 2012 Tutorial Video

This is a video tutorial about how to use Web Service Task in SSIS. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Web Service Task to send parameters to web service methods and get response and save response into xml file. this video has samples of work with World Cup 2010 Football Championship web Read more about Web Service Task – SSIS 2012 Tutorial Video[…]

File System Task – SSIS 2012 Tutorial Video

This tutorial video is part of SSIS 2012 Tutorial Videos. This tutorial video of SSIS 2012 Tutorial Videos illustrates how to use File System Task to do file operations like copy file and folder operations like create directory. as an example you will see how to create a package that checks for existance of an Read more about File System Task – SSIS 2012 Tutorial Video[…]

Script for Creating and Generating members for Date Dimensions: General Purpose

Date Dimension can be found in every Data Warehouse, because Date dimension is one of the most important factors of each operational system that users like to view reports based on date dimension. So the importance and requirement to a date dimension persuade me to write a t-sql script to generate records for date dimension. Read more about Script for Creating and Generating members for Date Dimensions: General Purpose[…]

How to get rid of TESTING CONNECTIVITY at the time of Opening SSIS packages in SSDT

SSDT has an option to test connectivity of connection managers at the time of opening the SSIS package. You can change this behaviour with WORK OFFLINE option. When you have many connection managers in SSIS package, you may face a halt at the time of opening each package with a “testing connectivity” message. This will Read more about How to get rid of TESTING CONNECTIVITY at the time of Opening SSIS packages in SSDT[…]

Introduction to Microsoft Big Data Solution – Microsoft HDInsight

Big Data is one of the hottest topics on data systems nowadays. Many of organizations tries to find a clue to start work with Big Data, and there are many courses and conference sessions on Big Data. Microsoft as a Database and software vendor started to provide specific solutions for Big Data. In this post Read more about Introduction to Microsoft Big Data Solution – Microsoft HDInsight[…]

PIVOT Transformation – SSIS 2012 – Complete Tutorial

Following the previous PIVOT Transformation Tutorial which was in 2008 R2 and earlier versions of SSIS, I got some feedback recently to create new version of that Tutorial for PIVOT transformation in SSIS 2012. Fortunately Pivot Transformation GUI improved too much in SSIS 2012 and you don’t need to set PivotUsage in the Advanced Editor Read more about PIVOT Transformation – SSIS 2012 – Complete Tutorial[…]

Difference Between Connection Managers used in SSIS Control Flow Tasks and Data Flow Components

Hi folks, Today I face a question regarding usage of OLE DB VS. ADO.NET Connection managers in SSIS, there are some blog posts about difference between connection providers and speed and performance of them. So I thought that this will be helpful if I list different Control Flow Tasks and Data Flow Components in SSIS Read more about Difference Between Connection Managers used in SSIS Control Flow Tasks and Data Flow Components[…]

Capitalize Function (Version 2.0) – T-SQL

Hi folks, I’ve changed the t-sql code for Capitalize function, the previous capitalize function worked only if there is one space between words, but this version works even if there be more than one space between words. with this version of Capitalize; you can run the function like this: select dbo.Capitalize(‘st    charles‘) and this Read more about Capitalize Function (Version 2.0) – T-SQL[…]