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SQL Server MVP Matthew Roche has been interviewed by Greg Low (another MVP) on SQLDownUnder.com. You can download the interview, on mp3, from here. Its a great conversation if you're interested in SQL Server Integration Services because that is Matthew's real area of expertise. He talks about best practices and that's something that ALWAYS ...

Recently on this blog I mentioned in passing that I have been working for some considerable time now on a project with multiple SSIS developers. A few people asked me if I could give a rundown of how we went about this, any experiences of team development I could pass on, and any pitfalls that I had learnt about. That's what this ...

In this blog's history I have suggested naming conventions for tasks and components and just lately I have been experimenting with a naming convention for packages as well. I've been pretty pleased with it and today a colleague commented on its usefulness so I thought I would publish it here and see what you, the SSIS community, thought of ...

For reasons that I'll save until another post, I always deploy my packages as files rather than to SQL Server. In doing this I have derived a folder structure that I use in order to keep all my deployed packages and other files in the same place:...\Root\CheckpointFiles ...\Root\Configurations ...\Root\ErrorFiles ...\Root\Logs ...

I thought it would be worth publishing a list of guidelines that I see as SSIS development best practices. These are my own opinions and are based upon my experience of using SSIS over the past 18 months. I am not saying you should take them as gospel but these are generally tried and tested methods and if nothing else should serve as a basis ...

I reckon that one of the most commonly used components in SSIS is the OLE DB Source component. This is the one that you use to pick up data from an OLE DB compliant data source (e.g. a database) in order to use that data in your pipeline. This is done with a SQL statement. One of the more common usage scenarios is to dynamically ...

I have extolled the virtues of the expression language in SSIS more times than I care to remember and quite frankly regular readers of this blog must be fed up of me banging on about them. Well I make no excuse for it - property expressions dramatically increase the power of your SSIS packages - turning them into dynamic behemoths rather than ...