Getting data out of MySQL with SSIS is a snap. Putting data into MySQL has been a different matter. I’ve always done this in the past with a hodgepodge of ODBC, Linked Servers, OPENQUERY and the Script Task. All of these work well but they’re just not as convenient as loading files with the OLED [...]

Whilst doing some maintenance on an SSIS package I encountered the below error when attempting to edit an Execute Process Task.

A few weeks ago I blogged about my attempts to make dynamic output files in ssis. The idea here was to make an ssis package, producing a text file output, that would cope with complete changes to the data source. If you wanted to add a column all you needed to do was change the [...]

I like making my SSIS packages as dynamic as possible. Once that package has been deployed into production I want to avoid opening it up in BIDS if possible. I’ve blogged previously about using Stored Procedures in Execute SQL Tasks but this only gives us flexibility in terms of the where clause. We have no [...]

I’ve been having a bit of a debate with some colleagues today about the Execute SQL Procedure Task in SSIS. Is it ok to enter raw SQL queries into this task or should everything be enclosed within a Stored Procedure? My view… For me, any day of the week, it should always be a proc. [...]