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 […]
Introduction SQL Server 2012 and all previous versions lacking native JSON support, same theory is true for their ETL Platform SSIS. If you are one of them who wants to export JSON from SQL Server or any other RDBMS like MySQL, Oracle then you can easily output complex JSON using any of the following components. Five ways of […]
Introduction Many times you have requirement to search and replace in files (single or multiple file) content using SSIS. If you are not C# or VB.net programmer then you may find yourself at dead end struggling how to achieve this in SSIS. If you have this need then you can use Advanced File System Task […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Introduction In this post, you will learn how to Parse Cookies from a Response and Pass Cookies to any Web Requests. SSIS PowerPack v1.8.2 introduced a new feature that allows sending and receiving cookies with HTTP Web Request/Response. We will use the SSIS REST API Task to parse cookie values and then send cookies along with […]
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 […]
Limitations of the SSIS Excel Source/Destination SSIS comes with out-of-the-box support for reading and writing to Excel. However, it’s very restrictive if you want to make things dynamic, as any metadata inside DataFlow cannot be changed at runtime. Here are a few problems with using the native Excel Source or Destination. Metadata cannot be changed […]
Introduction The REST API is becoming increasingly popular in the Data Integration landscape. If you are an SSIS Developer (not a coder) and stumbled upon a question What is REST API and how to consume API inside an SSIS package?” then you are at the right place :). We encourage you to read this article carefully and […]