SSIS: List of Tasks

This is a list of tasks provided out-of-the-box with SSIS.

SSIS Execute SQL Task SSIS FTP Task Dataflow Task SSIS ActiveX Script Task SSIS Analysis Services DDL Task SSIS Analysis Services Processing Task SSIS Bulk Insert Task SSIS Data Mining Query Task SSIS Data Profiling Task SSIS Execute DTS 2000 Package Task SSIS Execute Package Task SSIS Execute Process Task SSIS File System Task SSIS Message Queue Task SSIS Script Task SSIS Send Mail Task SSIS Transfer Database Task SSIS Transfer Logins Task SSIS Transfer Master Stored Procedures Task SSIS Transfer SQL Server Objects Task SSIS Web Service Task SSIS WMI Data Reader Task SSIS WMI Event Watcher Task SSIS XML Task

Integration Services Tasks

Tasks are control flow elements that define units of work that are performed in a package control flow. An SQL Server Integration Services package is made up of one or more tasks. If the package contains more than one task, they are connected and sequenced in the control flow by precedence constraints. You can also write custom tasks using a programming language that supports COM, such as Visual Basic, or a .NET programming language, such as C#. The SSIS Designer, the graphical tool in SQL Server Integration Services for working with packages, provides the design surface for creating package control flow, and provides custom editors for configuring tasks. You can also program the SQL Server Integration Services object model to create packages programmatically. Integration Services includes the following types of tasks.

Data Flow Task

The task that runs data flows to extract data, apply column level transformations, and load data. Data Flow Task

Data Preparation Tasks

These tasks do the following processes: copy files and directories; download files and data; run Web methods; apply operations to XML documents; and profile data for cleansing. File System Task FTP Task Web Service Task XML Task Data Profiling Task

Workflow Tasks
The tasks that communicate with other processes to run packages, run programs or batch files, send and receive messages between packages, send e-mail messages, read Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) data, and watch for WMI events. Execute Package Task Execute Process Task Message Queue Task Send Mail Task WMI Data Reader Task WMI Event Watcher Task

SQL Server Tasks

The tasks that access, copy, insert, delete, and modify SQL Server objects and data.

Bulk Insert Task Execute SQL Task Transfer Database Task Transfer Error Messages Task Transfer Jobs Task Transfer Logins Task Transfer Master Stored Procedures Task Transfer SQL Server Objects Task

Scripting Tasks
The tasks that extend package functionality by using scripts. Script Task

Analysis Services Tasks

The tasks that create, modify, delete, and process Analysis Services objects. Analysis Services Execute DDL Task Analysis Services Processing Task Data Mining Query Task

Maintenance Tasks
The tasks that perform administrative functions such as backing up and shrinking SQL Server databases, rebuilding and reorganizing indexes, and running SQL Server Agent jobs. Back Up Database Task Check Database Integrity Task Execute SQL Server Agent Job Task

Execute T-SQL Statement Task History Cleanup Task Maintenance Cleanup Task Notify Operator Task Rebuild Index Task Reorganize Index Task Shrink Database Task Update Statistics Task

Backward Compatibility Tasks

The tasks that Integration Services provides for backward compatibility with SQL Server Data Transformation Services (DTS). ActiveX Script Task Execute DTS 2000 Package Task

Custom Tasks
Additionally, you can write custom tasks using a programming language that supports COM, such as Visual Basic, or a .NET programming language, such as C#. If you want to access your custom task in the SSIS Designer, you can create and register a user interface for the task. For more information, see Developing a Custom Task.

Adding and Configuring Tasks

An Integration Services package can contain a single task, such as an Execute SQL task that deletes records in a database table when the package runs. However, packages typically contain several tasks, and each task is set to run within the context of the package control flow. Event handlers, which are workflows that run in response to run-time events, can also have tasks. For more information about adding a task to a package using SSIS Designer, see How to: Add or Delete a Task or a Container in a Control Flow.

For more information about adding a task to a package programmatically, see Adding Tasks Programmatically. Each task can be configured individually using the custom dialog boxes for each task that SSIS Designer provides, or the Properties window included in Business Intelligence Development Studio. A package can include multiple tasks of the same typefor example, six Execute SQL tasksand each task can be configured differently. For more information, see How to: Set the Properties of a Task or Container.

Connecting and Grouping Tasks

If the task contains more than one task, they are connected and sequenced in the control flow by precedence constraints. For more information, see Precedence Constraints. Tasks can be grouped together and performed as a single unit of work, or repeated in a loop. For more information, see Foreach Loop Container, For Loop Container, and Sequence Container.

Integration Services Transformations

SQL Server Integration Services transformations are the components in the data flow of a package that aggregate, merge, distribute, and modify data. Transformations can also perform lookup operations and generate sample datasets. This section describes the transformations that Integration Services includes and explains how they work.

Business Intelligence Transformations

The following transformations perform business intelligence operations such as cleaning data, mining text, and running data mining prediction queries.

Transformation
Slowly Changing Dimension Transformation Fuzzy Grouping Transformation Fuzzy Lookup Transformation Term Extraction Transformation Term Lookup Transformation

Description
The transformation that configures the updating of a slowly changing dimension. The transformation that standardizes values in column data. The transformation that looks up values in a reference table using a fuzzy match. The transformation that extracts terms from text. The transformation that looks up terms in a reference table and

counts terms extracted from text. Data Mining Query Transformation The transformation that runs data mining prediction queries.

Row Transformations
The following transformations update column values and create new columns. The transformation is applied to each row in the transformation input.

Transformation
Character Map Transformation Copy Column Transformation Data Conversion Transformation Derived Column Transformation

Description
The transformation that applies string functions to character data. The transformation that adds copies of input columns to the transformation output. The transformation that converts the data type of a column to a different data type. The transformation that populates columns with the results of expressions.

Export Column Transformation The transformation that inserts data from a data flow into a file. Import Column Transformation The transformation that reads data from a file and adds it to a data flow. Script Component OLE DB Command Transformation The transformation that uses script to extract, transform, or load data. The transformation that runs SQL commands for each row in a data flow.

Rowset Transformations
The following transformations create new rowsets. The rowset can include aggregate and sorted values, sample rowsets, or pivoted and unpivoted rowsets.

Transformation
Aggregate Transformation Sort Transformation Percentage Sampling Transformation Row Sampling

Description
The transformation that performs aggregations such as AVERAGE, SUM, and COUNT. The transformation that sorts data. The transformation that creates a sample data set using a percentage to specify the sample size. The transformation that creates a sample data set by specifying the

Transformation Pivot Transformation Unpivot Transformation

number of rows in the sample. The transformation that creates a less normalized version of a normalized table. The transformation that creates a more normalized version of a nonnormalized table.

Split and Join Transformations

The following transformations distribute rows to different outputs, create copies of the transformation inputs, join multiple inputs into one output, and perform lookup operations.

Transformation
Conditional Split Transformation Multicast Transformation Union All Transformation Merge Transformation Merge Join Transformation Lookup Transformation Cache Transform

Description
The transformation that routes data rows to different outputs. The transformation that distributes data sets to multiple outputs. The transformation that merges multiple data sets. The transformation that merges two sorted data sets. The transformation that joins two data sets using a FULL, LEFT, or INNER join. The transformation that looks up values in a reference table using an exact match. The transformation that writes data from a connected data source in the data flow to a Cache connection manager that saves the data to a cache file. The Lookup transformation performs lookups on the data in the cache file.

Auditing Transformations
Integration Services includes the following transformations to add audit information and count rows.

Transformation
Audit Transformation Row Count Transformation

Description
The transformation that makes information about the environment available to the data flow in a package. The transformation that counts rows as they move through it and stores the final count in a variable.