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Download the Latest File from Amazon S3 Storage using SSIS

ZappySys — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 12:33:04 +0000

Introduction

In our previous article, we saw SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task examples. Now let’s look at how to Download the Latest File from Amazon S3 Storage using SSIS. Microsoft SSIS includes the Amazon S3 Storage Task that allows us to upload files to Amazon S3 Storage, download files, creating local and remote directories an more. In this article, we will show how to use the SSIS Amazon S3 Storage task included in ZappySys SSIS PowerPack.

In nutshell, this post will focus on how to Download the Latest File from Amazon S3 Storage.

Prerequisites

Before we perform the steps listed in this article, you will need to make sure the following prerequisites are met:

SSIS designer installed. Sometimes it is referred to as BIDS or SSDT (download it from the Microsoft site).
Basic knowledge of SSIS package development using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services.
Make sure ZappySys SSIS PowerPack is installed (download it, if you haven't already).
(Optional step). Read this article, if you are planning to deploy packages to a server and schedule their execution later.

What is Amazon S3 Storage

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics. Amazon S3 provides easy-to-use management features so you can organize your data and configure finely-tuned access controls to meet your specific business, organizational, and compliance requirements. Amazon S3 is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9’s) of durability, and stores data for millions of applications for companies all around the world.

Getting Started

In order to start, we will show several examples. ZappySys includes an SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task that will allow you to access files/folders from Amazon S3 Storage to the Local machine, Upload files(s) to Amazon S3 Storage. It will also support Delete, Rename, List, Get Property, Copy, Move, Create, Set Permission … and many more operations. Here we are showing you is, How to Download the Latest File from Amazon S3 Storage.

Step-By-Step to Download the Latest File from Amazon S3 Storage

Let´s start with an example. In this SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task File task example, we will download the latest file using Amazon S3 Storage Task.

First of All, Drag and Drop Amazon S3 Storage Task from SSIS Toolbox and double click it to edit
Drag and Drop Amazon S3 Storage Task
The following options are available in Amazon S3 Storage Task:
Options to upload, download files in SSIS
You can also overwrite files and folder, skip all, overwrite if the source is older, overwrite if the file size is different, rename files and more:
Overwrite files in SSIS
Let’s select the Download Amazon file(s) to local directory. Now select/add The Source path, Check Recursive Scan(*Optional) to get all the sub-files and subfolders and files, after that add Target Path if you want to, This option will download files. In Path AccessMode we can use Direct to write the path directly or to use an SSIS variable.
SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task – Download files from Amazon S3 Storage
Now go to Advanced Filter & Sorting and configure it like below screen to download the latest file only.
Storage Task configuration to download the latest file only using sorting
That’s it now execute the package and it will download the latest file from the Amazon S3 Storage Task to Local File Machine.
Sometimes you may need to make advanced filtering on file path, file date, size, etc. for that refer to this article for more details.

Conclusion

To conclude, we can say that working with Amazon S3 Storage is now very simple. In this article, we looked at how to Download the Latest File from Amazon S3 Storage using SSIS. We used Adnavced Filtering & sorting option. If you liked the tasks you can start using them by downloading SSIS PowerPack from our web site here.

Thanks for your time.

References

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SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task examples (Download, Upload, Delete Files / Folders)

ZappySys — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 10:22:55 +0000

Introduction

In this article, we will show SSIS Amazon S3 Storage task examples. Uploading files using Amazon S3 Storage Task or downloading files are common requirements in SSIS. In order to work with Amazon S3 Storage, Microsoft SSIS includes the Amazon S3 Storage Task that allows to upload files to Amazon S3 Storage, download files, creating local and remote directories an more. In this article, we will show how to use the SSIS Amazon S3 Storage task included in ZappySys SSIS PowerPack.

Amazon S3 Storage Task can be used to perform various operations with Amazon S3 Storage objects (files and containers) (e.g. Download, Upload, Copy, Move, Rename, Delete, etc). You can also get single property of any Amazon file or get a list of Amazon files as ADO.net Table and which can be easily looped through using ForEachLoop Task. Most of the operations in this task support recursive search using wild card pattern (e.g. Myfile*.txt).

Prerequisite

First, you will need to have SSIS installed
Secondly, make sure to have SSDT
You have obtained Amazon S3 account access key / secret key.
Finally, do not forget to install ZappySys SSIS PowerPack

What is Amazon S3 Storage

Getting Started

In order to start, we will show several examples. ZappySys includes an SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task that will allow you to access files / folders from Amazon S3 Storage to the Local machine, Upload files(s) to Amazon S3 Storage. It will also support Delete, Rename, List, Get Property, Copy, Move, Create, Set Permission … and many more operations. Here we are showing you is, How to upload, download, move and delete files / folders from Amazon S3 Storage.

SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task Examples

Let´s start with an example. In this SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task File task example, we will upload, download, move and delete files / folders from Amazon S3 Storage.

First of All, Drag and Drop Amazon S3 Storage Task from SSIS Toolbox and double click it to edit
Drag and Drop Amazon S3 Storage Task
The following options are available in Amazon S3 Storage Task:
Options to upload, download files in SSIS
You can also overwrite files and folder, skip all, overwrite if source is older, overwrite if the file size is different, rename files and more:
Overwrite files in SSIS
Let’s select the Download Amazon file(s) to local directory. Now select/add The Source path, Check Recursive Scan to get all the sub files and sub folders and it’s files and add Target Path, This option will download files. In Path AccessMode we can use Direct to write the path directly or to use an SSIS variable.
SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task – Download files from Amazon S3 Storage
That’s it now execute the package and it will download all the files and sub folders from the Amazon S3 Storage Task to Local File Machine.
Now Let’s configure the task to upload the local directory files and folder to Amazon S3 Storage like below and execute the package. And also in this example i created the variable and stored target folder path in it and used that variable Target Path Variable.
SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task – Upload files from Amazon S3 Storage
Let’s configure the task to delete Amazon S3 Storage files like below and execute the package.
SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task – Delete files from Amazon S3 Storage
Let’s configure the task to move Amazon S3 Storage files to another directory like below and execute the package.
SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task – Move files from Amazon S3 Storage
That’s it like upper examples you can configure Amazon S3 Storage Task to use it’s other options also.
Let’s see other SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task examples in below sections

Working with advanced filters

In order to understand filters, we will create an example for you. This time we will create SSIS Amazon S3 Storage task example to show how to exclude some files from the downloading process.

In addition, it is also possible to add advanced filters to the SSIS Amazon S3 Storage task to exclude or include files and folders. The following example shows how to use the Advanced filters. In the Amazon S3 Storage Task, go to the Advanced Filter page and in Exclude RegX we will write \.exe$ to exclude the file with exe extension to be downloaded. You can use RegX (regular expressions) in the advanced filter:
Advanced filters

Working with wildcards in SSIS Amazon S3 Storage task (Multiple files only)

In order to understand wildcards, the new example will show how to work with Wildcards will help you to work with multiple files or folder with common characteristics.

The following example shows how to copy all the files will all the extensions in the source folder. We use the *.*, which means that any file name with any extension will be downloaded:
Working with Wildcards
If we want to download all the files with extension txt, use the following Path:
```
/source/*.txt;
```
Another example would be to download all the files with the following names: file1.txt, file2.txt and file3.txt. We could use the following Path:
```
/source/file?.txt
```

Working with SSIS expressions and variables in Amazon S3 Storage Task

In order to understand expressions, the following example will show how to work with SSIS expressions combined with variables in the SSIS Amazon S3 Storage task. In this example we will delete files in Amazon S3 Storage using variables and expressions.

ZappySys Providers simple and powerful Placeholders. You can still use SSIS expression language. Placeholders allow direct Variable Use easy to see compared to hidden SSIS Expression (C# style). Placeholders have simple embedding use of variables.

First, we will first create a variable in SSIS. In this example the file name is MyFile and the Value file1.
Create an SSIS variable
As a second step, we will write in path the value \destination\{{User.MyFile}}.txt. This will concatenate the folder destination with the variable MyFile. The task will delete the file1.txt from the Amazon S3 Storage folder.
Using SSIS expressions
The next example will show how to create a Amazon S3 Storage file using expressions and variables in SSIS:
Create file
Content to write is the content of the file. In Target, go to path and write the following: For more information on placeholders check this post and also check this post.
```
/destination/{{User::FileName,MM-dd-yyyy}}
```
We are using a variable in SSIS named FileName of type DateTime. We are concatenating the Amazon S3 Storage folder destination with the variable. As you can see, the expressions with ZappySys are very simple.

Example to verify if file exists in SSIS Amazon S3 Storage task

Finally, we will verify if a file in Amazon S3 Storage exists or not using the SSIS Amazon S3 Storage task.

In order to start, we will use the SSIS variables, create a variable of Boolean type named FileExists. In Storage Action, select Get Amazon file exist status. In path, select the path of the file to verify if it exists or not.
SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task – Check File Exist in Amazon S3 Storage
Secondly, we will use the ZS Logging Task to check the value of the variable File Exists. This task will show the value of the variable in the log. Drag and drop the task and join it with the ZS Amazon S3 Storage Task:
The SSIS Log task
In order to get the value, we will insert it in the Logging Task. To do that, insert the Variable and select the FileExists variable:
Add the variable in the task logging
Finally, run the package and verify the Output (you can use View and Output to see the output) and check the value of the Logging Task. If the file exists, the value will be true. If it does not exist, the value will be false.
Verify the variable in Output

How to loop through Amazon S3 Storage files in SSIS

You can also loop through files to perform custom action file by by. Amazon S3 Storage Task support Action to get File List as ADO.net Recordset

To get File list from Amazon S3 Storage Server perform the following steps.

From Storage Action select Get Amazon files as ADO.net DataTable

Get files as ADO.net DataTable
Create new Amazon S3 Storage Connection by clicking New next to connection dropdown.
Select Source Path (e.g \myroot\folder\*.txt )
Select or create new SSIS Variable (e.g. varFiles ) which will hold file list result (Must be Object datatype variable).
Click OK to close.
Create 3 more SSIS variables to hold File Path (String), Name (String) and Size (Int32). We will use in the next step.
Now drag SSIS ForEach Loop Container Task from SSIS Toolbox
Edit Loop Task and Select Foreach ADO Enumerator from the Enumerator dropdown
Select variable (e.g. varFiles)

Loop through files in SSIS using ForEach Loop Task (use ADO.net Recordset variable)
Click on Variable Mappings Tab and configure like below.
Variable Mappings for ForEach Loop Task – Loop through files in a folder using SSIS
Drag ZS Logging Task and place inside Loop and Display variables
That’s it

For more information to loop through files on local machine using SSIS check this article.

Conclusion

To conclude, we can say that working with Amazon S3 Storage is now very simple. In this article, we looked at SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task examples on how to upload, download, delete files and folders. We used variables, wildcards and expressions. If you liked the tasks you can start using them by downloading SSIS PowerPack from our web site here. We saw different SSIS Amazon S3 Storage Task examples to understand how to use the task in different scenarios.

Thanks for your time.

References

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Read Amazon S3 Storage Files in SSIS (CSV, JSON, XML)

ZappySys — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 09:43:13 +0000

Introduction

In our previous blog we saw how to load data into Amazon S3. Now in this blog, we will see How to read Amazon S3 Storage Files in SSIS (CSV, JSON, XML Format files). To illustrate, we will use ZappySys SSIS PowerPack, which includes several tasks to import/export data from multiples sources to multiple destinations like flat files, Azure, AWS, databases, Office files and more. They are Coding free, drag and drop high-performance suite of Custom SSIS Components and SSIS Tasks. If you like perform File operations on Amazon S3 Files (e.g. Download, Upload, Create, Delete) then check these articles.

In nutshell, this post will focus on how to Read Amazon S3 Storage CSV, JSON and XML Files using respective SSIS Source tasks.

Components Mentioned in this article

	Amazon S3 CSV File Source
	Amazon S3 CSV File Destination
	Amazon S3 XML File Source
	Amazon S3 JSON File Source

Prerequisite

First, you will need to have SSIS installed
Secondly, make sure to have SSDT
You have obtained Amazon S3 account access key / secret key.
Finally, do not forget to install ZappySys SSIS PowerPack

What is Amazon S3 Storage

Getting Started

In order to start, we will show several examples. ZappySys includes an SSIS Amazon S3 Source for CSV/JSON/XML File that will help you in reading CSV, JSON and XML Files from Amazon S3 to the Local machine, Upload files(s) to Amazon S3 Storage. It will also support Delete, Rename, List, Get Property, Copy, Move, Create, Set Permission … and many more operations. Here we are showing you is, How to download files from Amazon S3 Storage.

You can connect to your Amazon S3 Account by entering your storage account credentials.

Read Amazon S3 Storage Files in SSIS (CSV, JSON, XML)

Let´s start with an example. In this SSIS Amazon S3 Source for CSV/JSON/XML File task example, we will read CSV/JSON/XML files from Amazon S3 Storage to SQL Server database.

First of All, Drag and drop Data Flow Task from SSIS Toolbox and double click it to edit.
Drag and Drop SSIS Data Flow Task from SSIS Toolbox
Drag and Drop relevant Amazon S3 Source for CSV/JSON/XML File Task from the SSIS Toolbox.
Add Amazon S3 Source Tasks
Create a connection for Amazon S3 Storage Account.
Create Amazon S3 Storage Connection
Select the relevant single file to read from Amazon S3 Storage in their relevant source of CSV/JSON/XML File Task.
Select File From Amazon S3 Storage
We can also read the multiple files stored in Amazon S3 Storage using wildcard pattern supported e.g. dbo.tblNames*.csv / dbo.tblNames*.json / dbo.tblNames*.xml in relevant source task
Use wildcard pattern .* to read multiple files data
We can also read the zip and gzip compressed files also without extracting it in the specific Amazon S3 Source for CSV/JSON/XML File Task.
Reading zip and gzip compressed files (stream mode)
Finally, we are ready to load this file(s) data into the SQL Server.

Load Amazon S3 files data into SQL Server

ZappySys SSIS PowerPack makes it easy to load data from various sources such as REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, CSV or from other source into SQL Server, or PostgreSQL, or Amazon Redshift, or other targets. The Upsert Destination component allows you to automatically insert new records and update existing ones based on key columns. Below are the detailed steps to configure it.

Step 1: Add Upsert Destination to Data Flow

Drag and drop the Upsert Destination component from the SSIS Toolbox.
Connect your source component (e.g., JSON / REST / Other Source) to the Upsert Destination.

SSIS - Data Flow - Drang and Drop Upsert Destination Component

Step 2: Configure Target Connection

Double-click the Upsert Destination component to open the configuration window.
Under Connection, select an existing target connection or click NEW to create a new connection.
- Example: SQL Server, or PostgreSQL, or Amazon Redshift.

Step 3: Select or Create Target Table

In the Target Table dropdown, select the table where you want to load data.
Optionally, click NEW to create a new table based on the source columns.

Configure SSIS Upsert Destination Connection - Loading data (REST / SOAP / JSON / XML /CSV) into SQL Server or other target using SSIS

Step 4: Map Columns

Go to the Mappings tab.
Click Auto Map to map source columns to target columns by name.
Ensure you check the Primary key column(s) that will determine whether a record is inserted or updated.
You can manually adjust the mappings if necessary.

SSIS Upsert Destination - Columns Mappings

Step 5: Save Settings

Click OK to save the Upsert Destination configuration.

Step 6: Optional: Add Logging or Analysis

You may add extra destination components to log the number of inserted vs. updated records for monitoring or auditing purposes.

Step 7: Execute the Package

Run your SSIS package and verify that the data is correctly inserted and updated in the target table.

SSIS Upsert Destination Execution

Conclusion

Above all, in this blog, we learned how to Read Amazon S3 Storage Files in SSIS. We used Amazon S3 Source for CSV file, Amazon S3 Source for JSON file and Amazon S3 Source for XML file to read the file(s) from Amazon S3 Storage and load data into SQL server. You can download SSIS PowerPack here to try many other scenarios not discussed in this blog along with 70+ other components.

References

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