SSIS Excel/CSV from Sharepoint to SQL Server

Question

I need to take Excel/CSV files from Sharepoint and put them into a table on SQL Server.
I\'d like to like these packages to deploy automatically, so anytime somebody puts in

Answer 1

If you are in a cloud-based environment, your requirement can be handled in Office 365 by either a Microsoft Flow or in Azure with a Logic App (they both use the same engine). It is essentially a codeless configuration of connectors and tasks.

1. Within MS Flow, add the SharePoint connector and set it to trigger the flow whenever a file is added or updated in your SharePoint directory. This will be fairly intuitive in the interface.

2. You will then need to add a step to download the file to the user's OneDrive so that it can be opened and accessed. I downloaded it directly to the OneDrive root and then later removed the file after processing the data in the flow. This is a bit circuitous, but there currently isn't functionality to access SharePoint files directly with Flow or Logic Apps (that I'm aware of).

3. Create a step that processes the OneDrive file using a GetRows action to process each row in the file.

4. Within the loop of the GetRows action, you establish a SQL Server connection and wire up an INSERT query or call a Stored Proc to load the SQL table.

5. You can also send Pass/Fail e-mails to a list of users if need be.

I'm simplifying the solution, but it is relatively intuitive once you familiarize yourself with the Flow/Logic Apps interface. It takes a bit of head-banging to get through some of the idiosyncrasies of the interface and it has its limitations, but eventually I got through it and it worked like a charm. Also, because Flow/Logic Apps is polling the SharePoint folder for a new/modified file every 5 minutes or so, sometimes it takes up to 5 minutes before the flow is processed, so that is a drawback if you need instant results.