APIs are typically based on either SOAP (XML) or REST (JSON) service calls. However, there are cases where you might receive an XML snippet from a REST service endpoint that primarily serves a JSON document. In such situations, you need a proper strategy for working with the embedded XML snippet. In this blog post, we will show you how this can be achieved effectively.

The components we developed at KingswaySoft generally discover metadata automatically whenever possible - That is, our software retrieves metadata information made available by the API itself in order to properly populate our ETL components. In most cases, the metadata in our components is generally accurate, provided the target system has a reliable metadata API. This includes services like Dataverse/Dynamics 365 CE, Salesforce, SharePoint, etc. Accurate metadata is vital for data integrity in ETL processes. However, there are occasional cases where some ETL metadata fine-tuning may be necessary due to unique situations. For instance, you might encounter cases where a text field contains more data than what is indicated by its metadata, potentially causing the source extraction to fail. In such instances, manual editing of the metadata will be required in order for the ETL process to work. In this blog post, we will show you how such changes can be made properly for your ETL components.

KingswaySoft’s Premium Excel Destination component not only allows you to write values to an Excel file but also supports formulas. By using formulas in your Excel file, it can open up your data flows to many more possibilities. In this blog post, we will demonstrate one example of using formulas to create hyperlinks in an Excel file.

Applications and processes often rely on external resources, which can be expensive to retrieve or obtain. Therefore, modern applications often employ cache strategies to save these external resources in the local file system and achieve improved performance. In some other cases, you might have an application that keeps creating random temporary files to facilitate certain system requirements which cannot be achieved otherwise. However, as every coin has two sides, these caches or temporary files, in the long run, can build up in the system and occupy large disk space, which could have adverse effects and result in volume deficiency in the system. Implementing a scheduled cleanup of the cache folder by removing those files that are older than a certain age can become necessary in your ETL process.

In SSIS, the sensitive credentials have to be handled in a special way to ensure that they get preserved and decrypted while the packages run in an unattended way. There are a few means to do this, and in this blog post, we will discuss some popular ways this can be done.

NetSuite Custom fields are fields that you can add to records and transactions which can be used to save some additional information. This provides quite some flexibility when working with the NetSuite application if we have some special business requirements which cannot be accomplished using those out-of-box fields. Once added, those fields require some special attention in order to use use them in SSIS ETL data flows. In this blog post, we will show you how this can be done easily by using KingswaySoft components.

In this blog post, we will show a simple solution that can be used to generate the JSON structure from database tables which can be sent to CDS/CRM destination components for writing, we demonstrate the use of SQL FOR JSON clause to achieve the purpose.

This post will demonstrate how to perform file existence check in SSIS without writing a single line of code by using KingswaySoft Premium File Properties Task.