How to empty my destination table before inserting new records in SSIS?
Put your delete statement in an Execute SQL Task. Then make it the first component of your flow. The component looks something like this:
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Best Method to SFTP or FTPS Files via SSIS [closed]
The following question might be of use: What would be a recommended choice of SSIS component to perform SFTP or FTPS task? Cozyroc: It should be easy to test ssh protocol availability by setting the server to “allow only SSHv2” and testing. Have your tried asking Cozy’s sales dept? Command line sftp: The unknown filename … Read more
Update Rows in SSIS OLEDB Destination
You can’t do a bulk-update in SSIS within a dataflow task with the OOB components. The general pattern is to identify your inserts, updates and deletes and push the updates and deletes to a staging table(s) and after the Dataflow Task, use a set-based update or delete in an Execute SQL Task. Look at Andy … Read more
SSIS Connection not found in package
I’m a little late to the party, but I ran across this thread while experiencing the same errors and found a different resolution. When creating an SSIS 2012 package, in the Solution Explorer window you will see the Connection Managers folder at the project level. This seems like the most logical place to create a … Read more
SSIS Package not wanting to fetch metadata of temporary table
Using WITH RESULT SETS to explicitly define the metadata will allow SSIS to skip the sp_describe_first_result_set step and use the metadata that you define. The upside is that you can use this to get SSIS to execute SQL that contains a temporary table (for me, that performance helped a lot); the downside is, you have … Read more
How to loop through Excel files and load them into a database using SSIS package?
Here is one possible way of doing this based on the assumption that there will not be any blank sheets in the Excel files and also all the sheets follow the exact same structure. Also, under the assumption that the file extension is only .xlsx Following example was created using SSIS 2008 R2 and Excel … Read more
SSIS Data Flow Task hangs on excecution of Pre-excecute phase
I finally got it. It turns out there is an issue with the validation, but not only SSIS elements go through that validation, as stated in the fourth failed solution of the question. The CONNECTIONS also get validated and have their own Delay Validation property, which needs to be set to true. After that the … Read more
How to make an HTTP request from SSIS?
You can make use of the namespace System.Net.WebClient to make the Http request with the help of Script Task in SSIS. Following example shows how this can be achieved. The example was created in SSIS 2008 R2. Step-by-step process: Create a new SSIS package and create two variables namely RemoteUri and LocalFolder. Set the variable … Read more
See complete tooltip error message for Data Flow SSIS element in Visual Studio
The message will show in full form in the Error List window. Turn it on via View | Error List, or Ctrl–\ then Ctrl–E. Make sure that Warnings is selected as shown here:
How to convert blank into null in ssis
In DataFlow use DerivedColumn component. Replace your column and in expression put this line of code ColumnName == “” ? NULL(DT_WSTR,50) : ColumnName It will make sure to return null if column is empty