Friday, June 29, 2007

New SQL Server Integration Services Video Tutorial: Pt. 4 - Using a Script Component as a Source Connection

Pt. 4 - Using a Script Component as a Source Connection - view details
This video talks about when you would need to use a Script Component as a Data Source in a Data Flow task. Need to process unusual text files or text files with multiple delimiters with SSIS and use them as a Data Source? The Script Component is perfect!

Highlights from this video:
  • Reading .INI files as relational data
  • Understanding the Connection Manager tab in the Script Component
  • Using Me.Connections to access connections
  • Best Practices for using Output and Input column names
  • Using <Output Name>Buffer.AddRow()
  • Accessing row properties in Visual Basic .NET
  • Writing VB.NET code to add rows to the output
and much more


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Keywords Associated with this video: Transform data Task