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Importing Biml Metadata from Excel

David Stein wraps up a series on using Biml to load flat files:

Make sure you read and understand the concepts in each of the following articles before tackling this one.

– Import Biml Metadata with GetQuerySchema
– BimlScript Code Nuggets and Mad Libs
– Import Biml Metadata Directly from Excel

One of the primary issues I’ve mentioned in each of the preceding short cut steps is a lack of real automation. Since we didn’t have our metadata externalized, we needed to copy/paste some object, T-SQL file, Biml file, or Excel Spreadsheet in order to create new extracts.

The final post in the series contains quite a bit of code, too.