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  • Execute SQL Task in ADF

    February 25th, 2022 in Azure, Blog, Data Factory, SQL Server, SSIS, Synapse

    If you’re new to ADF or Synapse pipelines and looking for a way to execute SQL commands in pipelines, unfortunately there is no equivalent to the Execute SQL Task in SSIS, but I have found some alternatives which work well for me. For something as simple as a SELECT statement where you want to return results to be used later, you can use a Lookup activity: You can then reference the output of this activity in other activities using dynamic…

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  • How to resolve SSIS “Row yielded no match during lookup” error.

    January 26th, 2022 in Blog, Business Intelligence, SSIS

    Have you ever been faced with the SSIS error “Row yielded no match during lookup”? If so, this blog is for you! A customer of ours recently faced the same issue in one of their SSIS packages and asked us to investigate this for them. Initial investigations on their side highlighted that when they replicated the lookup component using a standard join in T-SQL (similar to the image below) it returned the expected results. So why was SSIS…

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  • Automate changing SSIS connection at runtime

    October 15th, 2021 in Blog, Integration Services, SQL Server, SSIS, Uncategorized

    Recently a customer came to us with an issue: “We have a primary/secondary AlwaysOn failover cluster, we want the data warehouse ETL to always pull from the secondary read-only replica. When the primary fails over, how can we detect this and repoint the ETL to the new secondary?” This led us to the following qualification steps:1. Is the secondary server accessible? a. Yes – Use it. b. No – Try the primary server.2. Is…

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  • System OutOfMemoryException when deploying SSIS .ispac

    February 21st, 2020 in Blog, SSIS

    If you’ve tried deploying a .ispac using the Integration Services Deployment Wizard, you may have come across the following error: By default SQL Server uses the 32-bit version of the Deployment Wizard, which is why you’ll be getting the Out of Memory error. If you instead launch the Wizard from the 64-bit location, (default is C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\DTS\Binn\ISDeploymentWizard.exe), then you should be able to…

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  • Lookups and If Conditions in Azure Data Factory v2 (ADFv2)

    June 5th, 2018 in Azure, Blog, Data Factory, SSIS

    Azure Data Factory v2 (ADFv2) has some significant improvements over v1, and we now consider ADF as a viable platform for most of our cloud based projects. But things aren’t always as straightforward as they could be. I’m sure this will improve over time, but don’t let that stop you from getting started now. This post provides a walk through of using the ‘Lookup’ and ‘If Condition’ activities to do some…

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