The title of this blog post is a bit misleading, because what we actually want to do is to install the SSIS development functionality in Visual Studio 2022. SSAS and SSRS have been available for some time now in VS 2022, but the extension for SSIS has only just been released in preview. For those […]
Category: SSIS
Webinar – Improve SQL Server Data Quality in SSIS
On the 5th of October 2021 I’ll be giving a webinar about improving data quality of contact data (names, addresses, emails etc) using the Melissa Data Tools. I’ll be doing half an hour of technical demos, while Jeremy of MSSQLTips.com will take for another half our of the business value of the Melissa software. Data […]
Upcoming Webinar – Intro to SSIS – Advanced Topics
On July the 22th at 9PM CET I will give the second part of the “Introduction to SSIS” webinar series on the MSSQLTips.com website. If you’ve never worked with SSIS before, it helps if you’ve seen part 1. The abstract: In this webinar, we build upon the Getting Started with SSIS webinar. You already know how to […]
SSIS and the “ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis” error
I had the extreme pleasure recently to extract some data out of an Oracle database. I wrote the source query in Toad, where it executed successfully. I created my SSIS package, added the dataflow and an OLE DB Source component. I copy pasted the query into the editor and tested it using the preview. Which […]
Upcoming Webinar- Introduction to SSIS
At February 25th March the 4th 2021 I’ll be giving a webinar on the MSSQLTips.com website. The topic is Integration Services. This webinar is meant as an introduction for beginners. The abstract: For years, Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been the tool in the data platform stack to integrate, move and transform your […]
Migrating SSIS to Azure – an Overview
For quite some time now, there’s been the possibility to lift-and-shift your on-premises SSIS project to Azure Data Factory. There, they run in an Integration Runtime, a cluster of virtual machines that will execute your SSIS packages. In the beginning, you only had the option to use the project deployment model and host your SSIS […]
Exporting Environment Variables out of the SSIS Catalog
Sometimes when you’ve created a SSIS catalog, along with folders, environments and environment variables, you want this content on another server. Unfortunately, you can only script out these objects in SSMS at the moment you’re creating them (thus right before you clikc ‘OK’ to confirm). Once the objects are created, you can no longer script […]
Skip Validation of SSIS Packages
There’s been an update of the SSIS extension for Visual Studio 2019. There are some bug fixes and deployments are blocked to Azure-SSIS if the target server version is not SQL Server 2017, but the real killer feature is the ability to now skip validation of an SSIS package when you open it. This might […]
Speaking at DataMinds Connect 2020
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be speaking again at DataMinds Connect this year, one of the greatest and best Microsoft Data Platform conferences on the European mainland. Due to the pandemic, this year edition is virtual, but this also means: more sessions! And a deep-dive track! And the event itself is free! The agenda is […]
The Azure-SSIS IR Startup Time
UPDATE: here’s an official blog post going in more technical detail on how they achieved the improvements in startup time If you want to run SSIS packages in Azure Data Factory, you need the Azure SSIS Integration Runtime (quite the mouthful), which is basically a cluster of virtual machines handling the packages like an SSIS […]