Introduction This post describes how I have automated the deployment of SSIS packages to different environments (test, staging, production etc.) There are definitely other ways of doing it, and some of these are possibly better - I think that this is the oldest-school way possible. I will describe our context which I hope will explain … Continue reading Automating the deployment of SSIS packages
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From Excel to SSIS, Part 5: Joining streams of data
This article is part of a series: From Excel to SSIS Getting started File Save As (a kind of Hello, World! program for SSIS) Filtering rows Grouping and calculating Joining streams of data 0. Introduction This article will cover another very useful chunk of SSIS - joining streams of data together. Often the value of two bits … Continue reading From Excel to SSIS, Part 5: Joining streams of data
From Excel to SSIS, Part 4: Grouping and calculating
This article is part of a series: From Excel to SSIS Getting started File Save As (a kind of Hello, World! program for SSIS) Filtering rows Grouping and calculating Joining streams of data 0. Introduction Over the articles in the series, we have been gradually working our way towards useful and interesting SSIS code. So far we … Continue reading From Excel to SSIS, Part 4: Grouping and calculating
From Excel to SSIS, Part 3: Filtering rows
This article is part of a series: From Excel to SSIS Getting started File Save As (a kind of Hello, World! program for SSIS) Filtering rows Gouping and calculating Joining streams of data 0. Introduction This is the first article in the series where we will do something with the data as it flows through SSIS, rather … Continue reading From Excel to SSIS, Part 3: Filtering rows
From Excel to SSIS, Part 2: Hello, World!
This article is part of a series: From Excel to SSIS Getting started File Save As (a kind of Hello, World! program for SSIS) Filtering rows Gouping and calculating Joining streams of data 0. Introduction In the previous post I introduced SSIS and how to install it. In this post I will take you through … Continue reading From Excel to SSIS, Part 2: Hello, World!
From Excel to SSIS, Part 1: Getting started
This is the first in a series of posts introducing SSIS by showing how you can get it to do things that you probably already know how to do in Excel. Getting started File Save As (a kind of Hello, World! program for SSIS) Filtering rows Gouping and calculating Joining streams of data I won't … Continue reading From Excel to SSIS, Part 1: Getting started
Reading JSON in SQL Server 2016
Introduction There's a lot of this that I won't have time or space to cover, so for more information, I suggest you look at Microsoft's blog on SQL Server + JSON. What I will cover is the OPENJSON table-valued function, which lets you turn JSON text into a result set, i.e. rows and columns. One … Continue reading Reading JSON in SQL Server 2016
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