CHAPTER 9

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XML Patterns

XML is a popular format for exchanging data between systems. SSIS provides an XML Source adapter, but because of the flexible nature of XML, it can sometimes be tricky to get your data to fit into the tabular format that the SSIS data flow expects. This chapter describes the formats that work best with the XML Source and two alternative patterns for reading XML data with SSIS.

Using the XML Source

Like most Data Flow components, the XML Source component requires column metadata to be set at design time. This is done using an XML schema file (.xsd). The XML Source component uses the XML structure defined in the schema to ...

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