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Software ==>	SSIS Integration Services (28 exercises)
Topic ==>	Data flow tasks (4 exercises)
Level ==>	Relatively easy
Subject ==>	SSIS training

Create an SSIS package to import an Excel workbook's data into a SQL Server table of songs about food

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

In SQL Server Management Studio, open the script in the above folder and execute it to get an empty table called FoodMusic:

The table you need to fill.

Open the Excel workbook in the above folder to have a look at its contents:

You may be beginning to guess where this is going!

Close the Excel workbook, and create a package called If music be the food which imports the Excel workbook's data into the SQL Server table:

Your data flow could look something like this.

Run this package - you should get a table of food songs in the FoodMusic table in SQL Server:

The table should be populated like this when you run your package.

Run the package a second time - you should find you get another set of 6 songs. Add an Execute SQL task to the control flow of your package to run this command:

TRUNCATE TABLE FoodMusic

Here's what your final control flow could look like: