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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 ...

Visitors to the SSIS forum often ask how to construct a date string in the form YYYYMMDDHHMISS (e.g. "20070207123456" for "7th February 2007, 12:34:56") using a SSIS expression. I always give the same answer so I thought I'd post the answer up here so I don't have to keep typing it. Here's the ...

Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows I am a big fan of using expressions to achieve results in SSIS. In this post I'm going to show a very simple example of using them. If you are building SSIS packages then you will be (or you should be) using the log providers to keep a history of your package executions. I generally use the ...

Whilst reading posts on the SSIS forum of late it has become evident that people are unaware of the power that expressions can provide within an SSIS package. This is understandable - alot of people are starting to use SSIS now but expressions aren't the most obvious feature. So what are they? Well the most generic explanation is that ...