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[Although I colloquially refer to myself on this blog as “SSIS Junkie” it won’t have escaped the notice of regular readers that I haven’t been talking about SSIS much lately, in fact nothing of real substance in regard to SSIS has appeared here since Nesting variables to calculate values on 24th October. The reason for that is that I simply ...

Update below There has been, and still is, quite alot of conjecture in Conchango as to whether one should use SSIS data-flows or stored procedures for ETL. Traditionally we have implemented ETL solutions using stored procedures. DTS was used but as little more than a workflow engine, occasionally using the data-pump for importing data from ...

It is a very common scenario to be able to load two tables in the same data-flow that have a foreign key relationship between them. The question of how to do this gets raised very often on the SSIS forum so I figured I'd try and address it here. Basically, its not possible to do this without using a workaround. There are two possible workarounds ...

I got some smashing advice from a guy called Steve Kass today that I wanted to make sure I kept and remembered. I thought about the best place to store it and I thought, well why not right here on my blog. That way I won't forget it and maybe other people can benefit too. Thanks for your help ...