When ingesting files in SSIS via Flat File Connections, a consistent format is key. Sometimes that isn’t the case. Here we’ll look at an example where the carriage return (CR, \r) may or may not be included in the file. The problem A file format can change as easy as tweaking the file in an editor […]
We may associate consuming data from Azure Storage with tools like Data Factory or even SSIS as we saw recently. We don’t always need the middle man though. Here we’ll demonstrate how to use an External Data Source to perform the ingestion directly into SQL Server. Firstly we need the credential to authenticate against the storage. […]
Andy Brownsword 