Considerations when Bringing Data into Data Flow

Integration Services uses the data flow engine to extract data from a data source, transform and modify the data once it is in the data flow, and then load it to an external data store. The data flow engine uses data flow sources for extracting data from a data store. Figure 9-1 shows how the data is being extracted and parsed by a data source; it also shows how an erroneous record will be handled.

Figure 9-1. A data flow source extracting and parsing data

In Figure 9-1, two records demonstrate how data flows through a data flow source. As the data flow source reads the data ...

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