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News just in… Microsoft have purchased Zoomix, a data quality software vendor. From the press release: Zoomix will contribute a critical layer of data improvement to Microsoft's SQL Server Data Platform Interesting stuff. One would think this will sit fairly and squarely within SSIS given that SSIS will be shipping Data Profiling ...

Someone emailed me today asking: I have an SSIS package that outputs data that can’t be inserted into destination tables into flat log files [JT: I presume he means that error rows are redirected to a flat file] What is the easiest way to then after processing has completed: A) Check to see whether there has been any data that could not be ...

In my blog entry Custom Logging Using Event Handlers from June 2005 I described an easy technique for using SSIS eventhandlers to get more useful logging information from your packages than using the out-of-the-box logging providers and up to now it has proved to be one of my most popular blog entries. With the introduction of the ...

  That’s what I twittered recently upon first opening up Release Candidate 0 of SQL Server 2008. You may remember that back in March of this year I told you about a new feature that would be appearing in a future CTP; namely that a container would provide information about its parent container. Hence if you peer into the depths of this ...

Whenever you run a SSIS package from the command-line you will see some output that looks similar to the following in your console window: Or preferably you'll get this:   Have you ever wondered what that phrase ''DTSER_SUCCESS (0)'' or ''DTSER_FAILURE (1)'' actually means? It seems a strange thing to have output doesn't it? Well ...

Quick note. Doug Laudenschlager (I've checked and rechecked the spelling - I think that's right :) from the SSIS team has begun a SSIS related blog at Dougbert.com (RSS feed). Doug is the technical writer on the team which means that he writes all the SSIS documentation in SQL Server Books Online. Hence, what Doug doesn't know about SSIS really ...

SSIS uses absolute paths to point to objects on the file system. What does that mean? In short it means that in order to point to a file I would have to use the full absolute path, I couldn't give a path that is relative to where the packages resides. A common complaint about SSIS is that it does not allow the use of relative paths. The most ...

A question I quite often see on the SSIS forum is: Is there a way to delete a group of files within a directory? ie: I want to delete all files in directorty c:\logs\*.txt (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3196521&SiteID=1) Well its actually quite easy, you just need  ForEach Loop container and the FileSystem Task. ...

Back in February and March I wrote a series of blog entries explaining how to use the various profile requests in the new Data Profiling Task that is coming in SSIS 2008. All of those blog entries explained how to profile some data and analyse it offline using the Data Profile Viewer which is all well and good but quite often you need to use the ...

As SQL Server 2008 is practically now a done deal my thoughts have turned to what will come in future versions. One feature I would like is something I'm notionally calling ''package parts''. Let me explain. Today in SSIS we build, distribute and execute these things called packages. Packages are fairly large, verbose, non-descript BLOBs and that ...