Create a GUID column in SSIS. Fun with SSIS and {GUID’s} - Mr Wharty's Ramblings. Task Create a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package that accepts a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) as a variable and uses this variable as: A parameter for a SQL Server stored procedure executed via an Execute SQL Task A parameter for a SQL Command executed via an OLE DB Source Data Flow Problem Although SSIS supports the GUID data type (DT_GUID) and although you can use a Data Conversion Transformation to transform a string representation of GUID into the DT_GUID data type, there is no GUID data type that can be assigned to SSIS variables. Solution This should have been an easy solution to implement so I can’t believe I wasted an hour trying to get things working.
Steps to implement solution: 1. Step 1 – Create SSIS Variable Here I’ve created a variable called ProjectUID of type STRING and assigned it a default value to assist with debugging. Step 2 – Create Execute SQL Task MSDN Link: Working with Parameters and Return Codes in the Execute SQL Task Step 3 – Create Data Flow Task. Integration Services Transformations. SQL Server Integration Services transformations are the components in the data flow of a package that aggregate, merge, distribute, and modify data. Transformations can also perform lookup operations and generate sample datasets. This section describes the transformations that Integration Services includes and explains how they work.
The following transformations perform business intelligence operations such as cleaning data, mining text, and running data mining prediction queries. The following transformations update column values and create new columns. The transformation is applied to each row in the transformation input. The following transformations create new rowsets. The following transformations distribute rows to different outputs, create copies of the transformation inputs, join multiple inputs into one output, and perform lookup operations. Integration Services includes the following transformations to add audit information and count rows. SSIS - Script Component as Source ADO.NET - Sudeep's Domain.
Normalizing data with Lookup or Insert. LOOKUPs instead of MERGE JOINs. Recently Mag (surname withheld :) from California contacted me with a few queries around a package that she was building. The package was a straightforward fact table load that required to use the dimensional natural keys in the fact data to get the corresponding surrogate keys from the dimension tables. All pretty simple stuff right? Well unfortunately Mag was loading 2.5million rows of fact data and it was taking far far too long. After a fairly lengthy email exchange it transpired that Mag was using MERGE JOIN components in the pipeline to get the surrogate keys and eventually we agreed it would be best to try using LOOKUP components instead.
Well Mag did just that and its not hyperbole to say that the performance improvement she got was stupendous. She has been kind enough to write a case study and allow me to publish it herein. I really recommend you take a read, the results are pretty astounding. SQL Server Integration Services Sort and Merge Components vs. Click OK. That is it!! Import an Excel file into SQL Server. Integration Services, which replaces Data Transformation Services (DTS) in SQL Server 2005, is a wonderful tool for extracting, transforming, and loading data. This article describes how you can use the new features of Integration Services to load an Excel file into your database. Integration Services, which replaces Data Transformation Services (DTS) in SQL Server 2005, is a wonderful tool for extracting, transforming, and loading data. Common uses for Integration Services include: loading data into the database; changing data into to or out from your relational database structures; loading your data warehouse data; and taking data out of your database and moving it to other databases or types of storage.
This article describes how you can use the new features of SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) to load an Excel file into your database. Double-click the Data Flow task that you have dragged onto the Control Flow tab. Figure G Get SQL tips in your inbox. Loop Through Excel File in SSIS. How to Read Excel Cells from SQL Server Integration Services. We all know that it is possible to import a table of data to SQL Server tables using Integration Services (SSIS). It is as easy as A-B-C. But what if you want to read only a cell from an Excel sheet and import that. Let say you have some kind of Excel sheet from which we need to perform a non-traditional import. In the above Excel sheet, you will see that format is not a row, column format. So you will not be able to use native SSIS to import this data. By Using Name Cells In Excel there is a feature where you can create "name cells". For each cell, you need to create a Name. This is the output Though this is what we are expecting, to get to that point we need to work hard, which is not worth money.
Using the Script Option As they say, when you need some non-standard operations in SSIS, it is the script component's turn to put his hand up. 1.Drag and drop a script component and select "source" as the script option type. 3.Define your output columns with the correct data type as shown below. XmlMap Members (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel) Sql - Import data from Excel using SSIS without knowing sheet name.