New to SSIS and requesting some assistance.
I have a pipe-delimited text file with lots of unneeded data and I only need two columns of this data. Data needs to then go into a SQL Server database, run a stored procedure (SP), and output the SP results to the current user's desktop in an .xlsx
file.
So far I have created a Data Flow task in my project that uses about six components to transform and load the data into the database successfully. I have created a project that will create and save the Excel file as expected, but because of my lack
of experience I can't quite get the parent SSIS to run the Excel-creation project. Not sure how to do that. Have tried all manner of scripting within the parent project and had no luck. My struggle is in figuring out how to APPROACH the next steps.
Here are some specific questions:
1) Would the exporting of data in this case be better handled by SSRS? I have read a little on triggering SSRS from SSIS and it totally confused me and I think was for older versions of SQL server anyway. Makes sense that SSRS might handle it better,
but that's another learning curve I was hoping to avoid for the moment.
2) Do I need to set up the import and export processes as separate projects, or are there built-in tasks that would accomplish this?
3) Can anyone provide guidance on which type(s) of task(s) I might need to use to finish out this process? Also any input on how to tie the two processes together would be most helpful.
Getting totally overwhelmed by the amount of information out there related to this type of project and having a hard time filtering it to what might be pertinent to my specific project.
Any help is greatly appreciated!