By: Andy Kim What is Biml? Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) is an XML-based language that can generate (SQL Server Integration Services) SSIS packages, amongst other things. The programming language was developed by Scott Currie and his company...
By: Ken Adams JSON is a file format that has become more common for database professionals to encounter. Over the years, we have become accustomed to delimited text files, fixed length text files, Excel (I threw up in my mouth a little bit), and just as we got...
By: Ken Adams Introduction Disclaimer: Microsoft introduced the project deployment model for Integration Services (SSIS) over 6 years ago with SQL Server 2012. At this point in time, it is likely that you know a lot about project deployment. This post will...
By: Austin Gainey It’s always important as a SharePoint Administrator to try to understand what effect an update or upgrade to your system will have on the user base. Sometimes it’s easy, as SP admins, to get in the habit of simply hitting “next, next, Finish”...
By: Andy Kim I was at the SQL Saturday Atlanta conference last week and attended a session in which the speaker asked the audience, “Has anyone here used fuzzy grouping or fuzzy lookups in SSIS?” To my surprise, I was the only one who raised their hand....
By: Matt Wollner Adding custom logging and auditing to your ETL process can be very beneficial – so much so that if your organization hasn’t added it to your ETL process yet, we highly recommend doing so. Many developers rely on SSIS to log their SSIS...
