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The error message posted on the subject above refers to install relevant client tools or services in order to continue the task you are running. You may be aware that SQL Server setup offers installation of various services such as Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Integration Services and so on...
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SSIS is stands for SQL Server Integration Services According to me SSIS is basic block of building any MS BI application which should be have three P’s-Pure,Perfect,Painless. It is ETL-(Extract,Transform and Load )Tool form Microsoft based on SQL and Own existing platform. ETL is the process in...
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CTP3 of SQL Server Code Name “Denali” was made available recently, and it offers a lot of new features for SSIS. Some of my favorites are: SSIS Projects, which is an encapsulation of multiple packages into a single unit that you build, deploy & execute. See Introduction to SSIS Projects in Denali...
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When you open a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package in SSIS Designer or add components to a package, SSIS by default checks the data sources used by the various components. This process for SSIS package validation ensures that the external metadata is valid. If the metadata is not valid, you’ll...
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If you are using environment variables in SSIS when using package configuration, chances are you will run into a situation where you add or change the value of an environment variable, and SSIS does not recognize it. There is a misconception that in order for the packages to start recognizing it, the...
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Problem Calling a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package from s stored procedure should be an easy task however Microsoft has provided no direct method to do so. A quick search on Google found this CodePlex example which uses the xp_cmdshell extended stored procedure to execute dtexec via the...
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Task Create a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package that accepts a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) as a variable and uses this variable as: A parameter for a SQL Server stored procedure executed via an Execute SQL Task A parameter for a SQL Command executed via an OLE DB Source Data Flow Problem...
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Microsoft has just released a new SSIS transform, called the SSIS Balanced Data Distributor (BDD). You can download it here . This transform takes a single input and distributes the incoming rows to one or more outputs uniformly via multithreading. The BDD will split the data, but there is no way to...
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A Fuzzy Lookup Task in SSIS that I was working on was bombing out, and I had a heck of a time figuring out why. The error did not tell me much: Error: 2011-05-18 10:42:09.33 Code: 0xC0047022 Source: Fuzzy Match InfoUSA SSIS.Pipeline Description: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PROCESSINPUTFAILED. The ProcessInput...
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BIDS helper is Visual Studio add-in with features that extend and enhance the functionality of the SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 BI Development Studio. Version 1.5 can be downloaded here , and read up on the new features . It’s a must-have add-in with tons of features . I find myself using...
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A lot of time people ask me if there is a way to read object variable in Script task. It comes in handy when you wish to work on the results of an Execute SQL query. Generally object variables are used along with Foreach Loop. However cases arise where you would like to read them separately. So how do...
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There is a new transform component available for SQL Server Integration Services. It’s called the Balanced Data Distributor (BDD) and the download is available here . The BDD provides an easy way to amp up your usage of multi-processor and multi-core servers by introducing parallelism in the data flow...
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Generally we use the logging provided by SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in a database that contains metadata about SSIS packages. This allows us to easily have a corporate standard for what actions are logged and takes advantage of the work Microsoft did to create the logging system. SSIS contains...
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When Visual Studio 2010 was released about a year ago, I was very excited and wanted to quickly open up a SSAS project created in VS 2008 to see the new features that were available in VS 2010. So I copied one of my projects to a test folder and proceeded to open that project in VS 2010. I was greeted...
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I got a very interesting scenario in Ask Sudeep section of BeyondRelational.com . Let me share the scenario first and then will explain how to go about it. Scenario : There is a folder which contains a number of files. The file name follows the following naming convention <Alphanumeric>.<Number>...