Integration Services

Introduction In these days developing in SSIS, you should be using a generation framework (BIML or EzApi. The benefits era a bit obvious: Your packages will have consistent layout and logic It’s easy and fast to apply the same change to all packages No more mouse programming (almost :)) It’s the right way to do metadata driven ETL The problem In a client I had a project with 97 packages. Each one of them started as copy of the first one.

Introduction For the ones unware of SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol), it is a secure channel with SSH2 encryption established between two machines. You can think of it as FTP with encryption and a few more differences. For more information about this you can read this blog post. There are some alternatives to get this done, ones paid and others free. I will focus on the use of the excellent SSH.