Maybe you’ve heard SSIS is available in the cloud. It is! But it’s not easy to get set up (at the time of this writing). I am here to help. The correct name for “SSIS in the cloud” is: Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime in Azure Data Factory version 2. Azure Data Factory version 2 is sometimes abbreviated …
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I was honored to write an article titled Introducing Azure Data Factory Design Patterns featured in this month’s PASS Insights newsletter! Introducing Azure Data Factory Design Patterns The article covers a couple execution patterns: Execute Child Pipeline Execute Child SSIS Package I demonstrate a cool SSIS Catalog Browser feature that helps ADF developers configure the Execute SSIS Package activity. To …
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A week or so back, I streamed 100% Efficient Data Integration, which you can view below (from LinkedIn) or by clicking the link to the YouTube recording: I share this SSIS Design Pattern in my Expert SSIS course. I next deliver Expert SSIS 14-15 Dec 2020. Also, Expert SSIS is on sale for 50% off …
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TL;DR: To read the value portion of a key-value pair stored in JSON in an ADF pipeline, interrogate properties.<key>, where key is the key-part of the key-value JSON pair. Introduction Last month I wrote a post titled Stop an Azure-SSIS Files Integration Runtime (Safely). The post generated a bunch of hits, which is awesome. The …
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