SSIS Data Flow Tasks with Descriptions

S No Transformation Description
1 Aggregate Summing / Averaging a total of the products purchased by a customer online to produce the final amount.
2 Audit When you want to load audit information like (Created Date, UserName , server Name..etc) to your Destination table.
3 Character Map String Manipulation, like Lowercase, Uppercase etc..
4 Conditional Split When you want to split your data to many destinations based on conditions.
5 Copy Column To have same column data with alias name
6 Data Conversion To convert the data type, (Unicode String àString…)
7 Data Mining Query Evaluating the input data against the analysis model to get a proper set.
8 Derived Column Adding a title of courtesy (Mr., Mrs., Dr, etc) before the name and removing the trailing and ending spaces.
9 Export Column When we get the normal files/pdf files/image files from different systems and save it under a particular folder and map it to the table master
10 Fuzzy Grouping Matching the name of a customer with master and child table and use it to group and get the desired set
11 Fuzzy Lookup Matching the name of a customer with master and child table and use it to group and get the desired set
12 Import Column When we get the normal files/pdf files/image files from different systems and save it under a particular folder and map it to the table master
13 Lookup Employee table information saved in a master file and the region wise data available across the table which can be mapped and joined to perform a joined querying operation
14 Merge Combine data from multiple data source like master and child employee table and get result in single dataset.
15 Merge Join Combine data from multiple data source like master and child employee table and get result in single dataset. Can use any type of join like inner, outer, left , right etc
16 Multicast Similar to the conditional split but this splits across all the parts
17 OLE DB Command Used when we need to do updates to all the rows of a table like update If a message sent to the entire customer who have made a payment today.
18 Percentage Sampling Similar to “SELECT TOP 10 PERCENT” in TSQL
19 Pivot To Convert Rows to Column and Column to Rows
20 Row Count Gives the Count of Rows
21 Row Sampling Similar to “SELECT TOP 10 ” in TSQL
22 Script Component Used for places where we need to use .net framework specific assemblies.
23 Slowly Changing Dimension When we need to use some historic dimensions of data
24 Sort To make some sorting to get the desired result. Sorting like customer who made the highest payment in a particular day.
25 Term Extraction Used to get a data from a large set of data and get the extracted output in a formatted set.
26 Term Lookup Used to get a data from a large set of data and get the extracted output in a formatted set.
27 Union All Used to get data from different data sources and get in a single dimensional format.
28 Unpivot Reverse of PIVOT Operation

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