Introduction Zendesk is one the most popular customer service platforms available in the market today. Zendesk offers REST API so you can interact with their cloud based service programmatically (manage or read data). The problem is not every one is programmer and not everyone has time to learn how to write C# or JAVA code […]
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Extract / Unload Redshift data into SQL Server using SSIS
Introduction In our previous article we saw how to load data into Redshift using SSIS or load data into Redshift using ZappyShell Redshift Command Line In this article we will walk through various steps to Extract/UNLOAD Redshift Data into SQL Server using Amazon S3 Storage Task and ExecuteSQL Task for Amazon Redshift. Below is the […]
How to read Twitter data in SSIS using REST API Call
Introduction In this article you will how to Read Twitter data in SSIS using SSIS JSON Source and SSIS REST API Web Service Task. You will also learn about latest OAuth 2.0 Protocol to simplify REST API access. Twitter REST API Authentication In order to fetch any data from twitter using OAuth REST API calls […]
JSONPath Expression Examples – JSON Cheatsheet (SSIS / ODBC)
What is JSONPath expression JSONPath expression is an expression language to filter JSON Data. Its a similar concept to XPath expression in XML but has limited features compared to XPath. If you are extracting data from REST API Services using SSIS JSON / XML Source or ODBC JSON / XML Driver then you will quickly realize […]
Working with HTTP Cookies in SSIS or ODBC
Introduction In this post you will learn how to Parse Cookies from Response and Pass Cookies to any Web Requests. SSIS PowerPack v1.8.2 Introduced new feature to send and receive cookies from HTTP Web Request/Response. We will use SSIS REST API Task to parse cookie values and then send cookies along with HTTP Web Request. Cookies […]
SSIS REST API Task – Mapping Response Header to Variable
In this post you will learn how to save Response header value to SSIS variable using SSIS REST API Task SSIS PowerPack v1.8.2 Introduced new feature for mapping Response Header to variable. When you click Test Request/Response button all response headers will be parsed into Response Header Grid with default [NOT-MAPPED] status. If you wish […]
SSIS export to excel dynamically (supports multiple tables)
Limitation of SSIS Excel Source/Destination SSIS comes with out of the box support for read/write to Excel. But its very restrictive if you want to make things dynamic because any metadata inside DataFlow cannot be changed at runtime. Here are few problems using native Excel Source or Destination. Metadata cannot be changed at runtime Datatype […]