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Here's a handy little tip for when you are building custom destination components or script destination components that enables you to log the number of processed rows. Have you ever seen that handy little message that appears in your logs that tells you how many rows arrived at a destination component? It looks a little like ...

It is generally accepted that a synchronous script component outputs the same number of rows as are input. Well I have news for you, this doesn't have to be the case. If you have a synchronous script component with multiple outputs then you can choose to send each input row to many or none of these outputs. As a result it is possible to have a ...

UPDATE: Check out kdog's useful comments at the bottom as well! Script components can either be synchronous or asynchronous. There are a number of definitions about the difference between the two including a description that I posted back in February. I thought it would be useful to demonstrate the difference between synchronous and ...

Another quick nugget here to demonstrate Regular Expressions. For those that don't know, regular expressions are a nifty way of matching incoming textual values to a required format. Probably best that I don't try and explain it any more. Read on... One of the classic demo uses of regular expressions is to examine a UK postcode to see if it ...