SSIS - Data Profiling

Data profiling capabilities

The Data Profiling task gathers the requested profile statistics and writes them to an XML document.

This can be:

• saved as a file for later analysis,
• or written to a variable for programmatic analysis within the SSIS control flow.

• Create an SSIS (Integration Service) project that includes a package.
• Add an ADO.NET connection manager for each data source that you want to profile.
• Add the Data Profiling task to the control flow of the package.
• Configure the Data Profiling task to specify:
  • The file or variable to which the resulting profile statistic should be written.
  • The individual profile requests that should be included in the report.

The viewer is available:

• in Debug Mode: in SQL Server Data Tools from the Properties dialog box of the Data Profiling task while the package is running in the development environment.
• as a stand-alone tool. Where you can open the result file (XML) that the Data Profiling task generates,

• Run the package in debugging mode.
• View the resulting profile statistics in the Data Profile Viewer. (When the Data Profiling task has completed, with the package still running, double-click the Data Profiling task, and then click Open Profile Viewer.)