Introduction In this short article, you will learn how to write Regular expressions in SSIS (i.e. Regex) and what tool to use to test them. You will also find helpful resources on how to write more sophisticated expressions and learn more about them. For demo purposes, we will use FREE SSIS Regex Parser Task to parse and […]
Category Archives: SSIS Tasks
Read / Write Smartsheet data using SSIS REST API Call
Introduction In this post you will learn how to Read / write Smartsheet data using SSIS (Drag and drop approach without any coding). We will use SSIS JSON/ REST API Source to extract data from Smartsheet API and use SSIS Web API Destination to write data to Smartsheet. This approach is similar to our previous […]
How to Import / Export data from Zuora API using SSIS
Introduction In this post, we will learn how to call Zuora API using SSIS. We will go through steps to read data from Zuora and load into SQL Server using SSIS REST API Task and SSIS JSON Source . At the end of this article, you will find a complete sample (dtsx file). Tasks/Components in SSIS for […]
How to download file from URL using SSIS
Introduction In this post, we will see how to download a file from a URL using the SSIS REST API Task. If you want to call the REST API instead of downloading a file, check this article. Basically, you can download a file from a URL using two different tasks. SSIS Download File Task offers a […]
How to configure Zendesk OAuth Application and Connection for REST API
Introduction To consume Zendesk data using the REST API, you can use different methods. Now, let’s see how to create an OAuth Application so you don’t have to rely on a static Token or a UserID/Password to access data. The OAuth method is more secure and recommended over other methods, so whenever possible, use it. […]
Import / Export data from Amazon Athena using SSIS
Introduction In our previous post we explored unlimited possibilities to call Amazon AWS API using SSIS. Now in this post we will learn how to import / export data from Amazon Athena using SSIS. Amazon Athena is very similar service like Google BigQuery which we documented already. To read data from Amazon Athena we will use […]
How to call Amazon AWS API using SSIS (EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS)
Introduction In this blog post you will learn how to call Amazon AWS API using SSIS (virtually any API) without a single line of code (No more JAVA, C#, Ruby, Python). Yes you heard it right 🙂 . If you are a SSIS / ETL Developer or even coder everyone loves drag & drop interface. SSIS […]
How to generate XML with namespace / prefix in SSIS
Introduction In this post you will see how to generate XML which has namespace and prefix for elements. We will use SSIS XML Generator Transform for this purpose. Common pattern would be generate XML SOAP message using XML Generator Transform and send to Web service using SSIS Web API Destination. For full tutorial on how […]
Tip – How to check file size before download from URL
Introduction In this article, you will see how to use the SSIS REST API Task to get the file size without actually downloading it. Prerequisites Before we look into the Step-By-Step section to get the file size from the URL, let’s make sure you meet the following requirements. SSIS designer installed. Sometimes it […]
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 […]








