The Unconventional Guide to How to Implement Lookup Transformations TIP #124

This is one the articles in the series of step by step SSIS tutorial. In this post, we are going to understand Lookup transformation and also see an example to implement Lookup transformation in 8 easy steps.
Now, Lookup transformation is one of the interesting transformation which is used to implement equijoin between data sources.
We are discussing the same example which we discuss in the earlier post which is Person & PersonPone tables of AdventureWorks.
Suppose, we want Person details and the phone number of person as a result then we can apply Lookup transformation.
When, we applied the Lookup transformation between Person & Person Phone table then we will get two result set.
One of the result sets is the Matched result set in which we will get the Person data and the First Matched Phone number while the PersonPhone table might have multiple phones for a person but we will get only one phone number record because Lookup transformation uses EquiJoin.
In the second result set, we will get unmatched Person records which mean the Person who doesn’t has a Phone number in PersonPhone table.
I think, we have a basic understanding of what is Lookup Transformation. Now, we are going to implement Lookup Transformation step by step.
Step 1:-
So, the first basic step is to add a package and drag-drop data flow task as shown in below figure. You can rename the  data flow task  as I did in below figure.

Step 2: - In this step drag drop a data source and configure it for Person table as shown in below figure. If you face any difficulties in this then you can review previous articles of this series

Step 3:- Once the Person table is configured just drag drop Lookup Transformation control and provide the input of Person table Data source to Lookup table. When you try to configure the Lookup you will get the following screen. We will discuss Cache mode separately in detail. In this example, we are using Full Cache and connection type to OLEDB connection Manager.
Now, Click on Connection option on the right and configure the PersonPhone table.

Step 4:- Now, configure the Columns relationship between Person & PersonPhone table.To achieve this just drag-drop BusinessEntityId of available input columns of Person table to available Lookup columns which are in PersonPhone table and matched with BusinessEntityId which is common between Person & PersonPhone table. Here we have to select PhoneNumber column which we have to include in the result set.

Step 5:- Now, Drag drop two excel destination source and configure it. As, I did in below figures. Here one Excel is with name LookupOutput.xls which contain matched records.

Below, is another Excel which contains unmatched records. Here UnMatched means the Person records who don’t have phone numbers.

Step 6:- Now, If you see there are 3 output lines coming from Lookup transformation.So, First blue output gives it to Lookupoutput excel which will have all the matched records of person & Person Phone number. You can configure inputs as shown below.

Step 7:- In a similar way, we have to configure unmatched record output. Once, we done with configuration of both Matched & unmatched output, we will get following structure as shown in below screen

Step 8:-  Once, everything is configured you can run the package and if everything is perfect then you will get the following screen

I hope above steps are easy and you can implement Lookup Transformation at your end too.
Please, provide your inputs.
Enjoy !!!
RJ!!!

How to do Step by Step Merge Join Transformations - #123

In last post tip #122, We discussed Merge transformation. Now in this tip, we are going to discuss Merge Join. Although, it might be confusing sometimes Merge & Merge Join. So, let me explain it here.
As explain earlier merge is like a union operation in which it just collect all the records from provided sources without any condition. suppose if we have Person & PersonPhones two sources as shown below
Below is Person table with two columns personId & Name

PersonId	Name
1	Ram
2	Shyam
3	Ghanshyam

Below is PersonPhones table with two columns PersonId & Phone

PersonId	Phone
1	9999
2	3122
3	3422

Now if we talk about merge transformation then the result would be as shown below
Merge Transformation output

PersonId	Name	Phone
1	Ram
2	Shyam
3	Ghanshyam
1		9999
2		3122
3		3422

Now, If we talk about Merge Join transformation for above same inputs (Person, PersonPhones) then we will get following output

PersonId	Name	Phone
1	Ram	9999
2	Shyam	3122
3	GhanShyam	3422

So, Merge Join is basically a join like Inner join, Left outer join, Full outer join etc.
I hope you got the context. Here we go step by step to implement the Merge join transformation
Step 1:-  Add the different sources which you want. For this example I am taking two sources which have AdventureWorks database and one source have Person table & another one have PersonPhone as shown above in the example.
We added data flow task as shown in below image and renamed it to Merge join data flow task.

Now, in this data flow task, we will add data sources, in the first source we use person table and in the second source we use PersonPhone.
from person table, we are choosing BusinessEntityId, FirstName,MiddleName, LastName,suffix as shown in below figure

 
In the other source, we are using BusinessEntityId & Phone number columns.

If you find any issue in above steps then please, follow previous articles of step by step SSIS on Indiandotnet.
Step 2:- Now once the source is configured, we are going to drag drop merge control as shown in below figure.

Step 3:- Now to configure Merge join, we are going to drag drop inputs from the sources. When you try this at your end then you will get the following screen. Here you have to set left input and right input for the merge join.

Now, When you tried it you might found following warning. Which means the provided inputs of datasource1 & datasource2 are not sorted.

Step 4:- Here you have the option to add a Sort transformation and then provide input to merge join transformation control which is fairly simple and we have discussed in previous tips. Here, I am sharing one more option.
In this, you have to right click on DataSource and choose option Advance Editor by which you will get the following screen. You have to select “OLEDB Source output” of “Input and output Properties” tab.
Here, we need to make the IsSorted property to True as highlighted in below snap.

Step 5:- Once the above Step is done next step is click on output column’s BusinessEntityId value. Here you have to set the SortKeyPosition to 1.
As highlighted in below screen.


Step 6:- Once you configured sorted input sources then next step is to configure the merge join. So when you click on Edit option of merge join. You will get the following screen.
Here if you see, we can configure join type like Inner join, Left outer join, Full outer join.
For current example, we are choosing the option “Inner join”  and joining key is BusinessEntityId which is primary key in Person table and foreign key in PersonPhone table.

Once the configuration is done. We can select what are the columns which we need as an output.
Step 7:- Now, Next step is to configure the output in excel. for this, we drag & drop a destination source. In the current example, we are using Excel as a destination. We are mapping the columns of output to excel as shown in below figures.

Step 8:- Once, everything is configured. We run the package and if everything is working fine then we will get the following screen.

To cross check the result we open the excel and we get the output which we expected as shown in below figure.

I hope this article might help you to understand the Merge join.
Enjoy !!!
RJ!!

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Step by Step Merge transformation control in SSIS TIP #122

In the Series of Zero to hero in SSIS  this is another post. In this post we are going to discuss Merge transformation control.

By the name it is clear that Merge transformation do some merge related task. For example suppose there is two sources which are source1

and source2. Now we want merge records of Source1 & Source2 then this transformation is helpful.

Although, sometimes you might confuse that there is already UNION ALL transformation the when to use UNION ALL or Merge transformation.

For Merge transformation we require sorted inputs and there is only two inputs required. The output of merge transformation will be sorted output.

Let’s start it Step by Step

Step 1:- Firstly configure the sources. In current example I am using AdventureWorks2008 database’s person table and using FirstName, LastName, MiddleName columns as a Source1. For Source2  I am using AdventureWorks2012 database’s person table and using FirstName, LastName, MiddleName again. (You can choose any different source like flat file, excel ,other data source provider as well to make it simple I am  using same source)

Step 2:- Once you setup your data source the next mandatory condition is the output should be sorted. So here we are using Sort transformation control. Now for first source we are sorting data on FirstName,MiddleName, LastName.

and for second source we are sorting data on FirstName , LastName ,MiddleName

Step 3: Now once we have two sorted input we are going to use Merge transformation control so just drag drop and configure it. As shown in below figure. So there are two inputs which is Merge Input 1 & Merge Input 2 and we configured the data according to our need. And if you see below screen you will find “Configure the properties used to merge two sorted inputs into one output” which means for Merge transformation we require two sorted inputs only.

Step 4:- Now,we want the output of merge transformation in an excel so, here dropped Excel destination and configure it.So  you can see below configured package with excel destination.

Step 5:- Now just hit F5 or run it. If everything configured properly then you will get all the green checks with no of rows count at each level as shown in below figure

Step 6:- We can cross check Excel also so in my case we got the required data as shown in below Excel's snapshot.

So, Isn’t it simple ?

Here the important points to remember

1) Merge requires Sorted inputs only

2) Merge requires only two inputs

I hope this tutorial might help you. I appreciate your feedback.

Enjoy !!

RJ!!