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 […]

How to use Office 365 API with SSIS (Mail, Calendar, Contacts, OneDrive, Excel)

Introduction In this post you will learn how to access Microsoft Graph API  (Office 365 REST API / Sharepoint API) inside SSIS without any coding. Microsoft Graph API is a unified way to access many Microsoft services API including Office 365 API. In this post we will use SSIS JSON Source / REST API Connector to […]

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Parse JSON array in SSIS or ODBC Drivers

Introduction In our previous post we saw how to parse JSON arrays. Now let’s look at more advanced techniques to parse multi-dimensional JSON array in SSIS (  e.g. 2D – JSON array inside array). We will use SSIS JSON Source to parse complex nested JSON in few clicks. Tips and Tricks mentioned in this article […]

How to read/load data in Xero using SSIS

Introduction Xero is well known Cloud based Accounting Software. In this post you will learn how to implement Xero API Integration with SQL Server or any other RDBMS (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, Postgresql) using SSIS in few clicks. We will use SSIS JSON Source to Read data from Xero and Load into SQL Server / other […]

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 […]

How to read / write data in Google BigQuery using SSIS

Introduction Google BigQuery is a fully managed Big Data platform to run queries against large scale data. In this article you will learn how to integrate Google BigQuery data into Microsoft SQL Server using SSIS. We will leverage highly flexible JSON based REST API Connector and OAuth Connection to import / export data from Google […]

Loading data from SQL Server to Elasticsearch with SSIS

Introduction Elasticsearch is a powerful engine that allows you to store, aggregate, and, most importantly, search data in a very analytical way. In this tutorial, you will learn how to bulk load data from SQL Server to Elasticsearch with SSIS (part of SQL Server) and ZappySys PowerPack. The scope of this article will be to show how to import […]

How to authenticate to an API with OAuth 2.0 using SSIS / ODBC

Introduction In the world of REST APIs you have to know how to authenticate, before using any API method. In this article we will cover a topic how to authenticate to an API with OAuth 2.0 technology using SSIS or ODBC Drivers. We are going to use OAuth Connection Manager SSIS component to achieve that, which is a […]

SSIS Error Handling – Ignore API Error OR Redirect bad rows

Introduction In this article you will learn how to implement SSIS error handling (detect or redirect bad rows) for SSIS PowerPack components inside Data Flow. If you never heard about SSIS PowerPack then we’ve got to tell you it’s an add-on pack to get additional 45+ SSIS components and Task connectors (e.g. connectivity to REST API, […]