How to query salesforce data using Bulk API in SSIS

Introduction In our previous post, we saw how to read Salesforce data using SSIS Salesforce Source (Which uses SOAP API under the hood). This may be slow if you have millions of rows because Salesforce Source paginates every 2000 rows, so it’s not a good option to read millions of rows to iterate on a […]

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How to call SOAP / REST API using Dynamic Token in SSIS / ODBC

Introduction In this blog, we will learn how to call SOAP / REST API using Dynamic Token in SSIS (i.e. Two steps authentication approach – Fist Call Login API to get token and then call API). In our previous blog post, we saw how to call Web API using some industry standards approaches, such as […]

Using Regular Expressions in SSIS

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 […]

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How to remove invalid characters from XML using SSIS and Regex

 Introduction In this blog post you will see how to remove invalid characters from XML using SSIS. We will use search and replace feature of Advanced File System Task. Remove Invalid characters from XML Xml file specification have restriction about which characters can be part of XML data and which should be avoided. If you use […]

Using SSIS Regex Parser Task for Extracting HTML Content

Introduction In this post you will learn how to use FREE SSIS Regex Parser Task along with REST API Task to extract HTML content in few clicks. Scenario Assume that you want to search certain keywords from Bing or google and want to know how many pages found for that keyword. Url for search would […]

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How to do REST API Pagination in SSIS / ODBC Drivers

Introduction In our previous blog, we saw how to call REST in SSIS including concepts of Authentication / Error Handling. Now in this post, we will cover API Pagination. You will learn concepts and patterns about REST API Pagination (for JSON / XML / SOAP or CSV API). We will describe methods and steps to implement REST API […]

How to read Zendesk data in SSIS with REST API

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 […]

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 […]