Appian Corporation Latest SSIS Interview Questions

Appian Corporation Most Frequently Asked Latest SSIS Interview Questions Answers

Explain Merge Transformation?

Merge transformation merges two paths into single path. It is useful when you want to break out data into path that handles errors after the errors are handled, the data are merge back into downstream or you want to merge 2 data sources. It is similar with Union All transformation, but Merge has some restrictions :
1. Data should be in sorted order
2. Data type , data length and other meta data attribute must be similar before merged.

Explain Merge Join Transformation?

Merge Join transformation will merge output from 2 inputs and doing INNER or OUTER join on the data. But if you the data come from 1 OLEDB data source, it is better you join through SQL query rather than using Merge Join transformation. Merge Join is intended to join 2 different data source.

What is environment variable in SSIS?

An environment variable configuration sets a package property equal to the value in an environment variable.
Environmental configurations are useful for configuring properties that are dependent on the computer that is executing the package.

How to provide security to packages?

We can provide security in two ways

1. Package encryption
2. Password protection.
Appian Corporation Most Frequently Asked Latest SSIS Interview Questions Answers
Appian Corporation Most Frequently Asked Latest SSIS Interview Questions Answers

What are Precedence constraints?

Constraints that link executable, container, and tasks within the package control flow and specify condition that determine the sequence and conditions for determine whether executable run.

What is Design time Deployment in SSIS ?

When you run a package from with in BIDS,it is built and temporarily deployed to the folder. By default the package will be deployed to the BIN folder in the Package’s Project folder and you can configure for custom folder for deployment. When the Package’s execution is completed and stopped in BIDS,the deployed package will be deleted and this is called as Design Time Deployment.

Explain Multicast Transformation?

This transformation sends output to multiple output paths with no conditional as Conditional Split does. Takes ONE Input and makes the COPY of data and passes the same data through many outputs. In simple Give one input and take many outputs of the same data.

Explain Percentage and row sampling Transformations?

This transformation will take data from source and randomly sampling data. It gives you 2 outputs. First is selected data and second one is unselected data. It is used in situation where you train data mining model. These two are used to take the SAMPLE of data from the input data.

Explain Sort Transformation?

This component will sort data, similar in TSQL command ORDER BY. Some transformations need sorted data.

Explain Union all Transformation?

It works in opposite way to Merge transformation. It can take output from more than 2 input paths and combines into single output path.

What r the possible locations to save SSIS package?

You can save a package wherever you want.
SQL Server
Package Store
File System

What is a package?

A discrete executable unit of work composed of a collection of control flow and other objects, including data sources, transformations, process sequence, and rules, errors and event handling, and data destinations.

What is a workflow in SSIS?

A workflow is a set of instructions on how to execute tasks.
(It is a set of instructions on how to execute tasks such as sessions, emails and shell commands. a workflow is created form work flow mgr.

What is the diff between control flow Items and data flow Items?

The control flow is the highest level control process. It allows you to manage the run-time process activities of data flow and other processes within a package.
When we want to extract, transform and load data within a package. You add an SSIS dataflow task to the package control flow.

What are the main component of SSIS(project-architecture)?

SSIS architecture has 4 main components

1.ssis service
2.ssis runtime engine & runtime executables
3.ssis dataflow engine & dataflow components
4.ssis clients

Different components in SSIS package?

Control flow
Data flow
Event handler
Package explorer.

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