How to make Path / URL dynamic in SSIS

Problem Most of SSIS PowerPack components support simple text placeholders engine to make things dynamic without using Complex Steps of SSIS Expression Engine. So let’s look at how to make Path / URL or other input values dynamic in SSIS. To show you how to do that we will use JSON Source component, but basically, […]

Tip – How to check file size before download from URL

Introduction In this article you will see how to use SSIS REST API Task to get file size without actually downloading it.       Prerequisites Before we look into Step-By-Step section to get file size from URL let’s make sure you met following requirements. SSIS designer installed. Sometimes it is referred as BIDS or SSDT […]

Filter by file size, name, date for Amazon / Azure Storage SSIS Task

Introduction Sometimes you may need to make an advanced filtering on file path, file date, size etc in SSIS Amazon S3 Task or SSIS Azure Blob Storage Task . For example, you have a directory “Customers“, which contains client directories. Each of them contains a directory named “Invoices“, which is partitioned by year. E.g. “Customers/Microsoft/Invoices/2015”. So […]

Convert CURL to SSIS PowerPack / ODBC for API Call

Introduction Many time REST API documentation uses example syntax for CURL command line tool because its one of the most popular tool to make API call. However if you are a SSIS developer and using ZappySys API Drivers / Connectors from either SSIS PowerPack or ODBC PowerPack products then this blog post will help you to translate cUrl command […]

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 […]