Introduction Many times during your ETL process you receive files which are in different encoding than you expect. Example all files are in UTF-16 format but your application expect them to be in UTF-8. Or Sometimes files are in ASCII format and you want to convert to UTF-8. In this post you will see how […]
Category Archives: SSIS Tasks
HTTP POST in SSIS – Send data to Web API url
Introduction In our previous article we saw how to call REST API or SOAP Web Service in SSIS. In this article we will only focus how to perform HTTP POST in SSIS using RESTful approach. HTTP Protocol supports many methods also referred as verb (e.g. GET, PUT, POST, HEAD, DELETE). Based on this verb, target […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to Call REST API in SSIS – Read JSON / XML / CSV
Introduction REST API is becoming more and more popular in Data Integration landscape. If you are SSIS Developer (not a coder) and stumbled upon a question what is REST API and “how to consume API inside SSIS package?” then you are at the right place :). We encourage you to read this article carefully and follow […]