In SQL Server 2000 Data transformation Services (DTS) it was a bit of a hack to be able to loop over files of a given type in a certain directory and import them into your destination. It involved a lot of "Glue Code" and a certain amount of fooling the package into going back to… Continue reading Looping over files with the Foreach Loop
Month: May 2005
Handling different row types in the same file
Sometimes source systems like to send us text files that are a little out of the ordinary. More and more frequently we are seeing people being sent master and detail or parent and child rows in the same file. Handling this in DTS is painful. In SSIS that changes. In this article we'll take you… Continue reading Handling different row types in the same file
What is Validation?
Some questions keep popping up about validation and I thought I'd try to clarify it a bit. What is Validation I've never seen a good definition for what validation in IS is supposed to be or what it's supposed to do anywhere. There is a lot of discussion about what components do when validating, but… Continue reading What is Validation?
Log Events and Pipeline Events
I was about to write about data flow buffer size configuration properties but need to get this one out first so that we can refer to it. The Data Flow task (internally and in the object model also called the 'Pipeline') logs some pretty interesting information that describe the internal scheduler. To see these messages,… Continue reading Log Events and Pipeline Events
Parallel Execution Properties
Adjusting the following properties can have an impact on parallelization during execution: 1. MaxConcurrentExecutables This is a property on the Package. It defines how many tasks can be run concurrently. A value of -1 means the number of processors and when hyperthreading is turned on, it counts the number of logical processors, not physically present… Continue reading Parallel Execution Properties