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For some solutions in SSIS you may need to go over all records from some SELECT and each
€ record use in some subqueries. In this case you want loop record per record in some task
What you series. Best solution is to use Looping through recordset. Because of SSIS is intuitive enough to
create this task, here is step by step overview. In this step by step tutorial, I am using
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Step 1 - Create source recordset

As first we must create new Execute SQL task and open its parameters.
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The most important part is in Result Set page. We specify that we want use a variable for this recordset. Right now we
need to create some variable. In Result Set tab in Variable Name column you can select <New variable ...> and create it.

In this example I am calling it objProduct. This variable must be OBJECT type.

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When we create it, we have in the Result Name column something like this "NewResultName". This must be overwritten to
"0". Because of SSIS is not working properly without numbers.

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Step 2 - Create loop

Now we can create Foreach Loop Container by drag and drop and connect our Query Task with this Container.

We have to open properties of this container now and open Container page. Select Foreach ADO Enumerator. Then
select objProduct from previous step as an ADO object source variable. Enumeration mode should be set to Rows in the
first table.

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On next page, Variable Mapping, here we can setup variables using inside loop. You select variable (if it doesn't exist yet
you can create it from here) and specify which column value will be inserted into by Index number. First column in
resultset is 0, second is 1 etc.€

The loop environment is ready and we can create whatever we want inside loop.
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Step 3 - Inside loop

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Right now you are able to create whatever you want based on record by record walkthrough. Just for example I will
create simple Script Task now. This task will print product name for each record from resultset.
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I created Script Task and set variables for reading which I want to use.
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Inside the Design Script I am using just simple Visual Basic script, that shows a message box for each loop:
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MsgBox(CType(Dts.Variables("ProductName").Value, String))
Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Success

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And that's it. Because best is just take a look at example and play with it, here you can download this example SSIS
package and try to work it.
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#4 Vicky 2010-06-24 20:48 0
Thanks so much!!! So detailed and to the point. This was BIG help!!!!!
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#3 Jane 2010-01-26 09:36 0
THank you. The example you provided has been most helpful.
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#2 Chris Page 2009-12-21 16:38 0
I've just spent an hour trying to make this work! Your code works perfectly. Interpreted to mine it fails. Was
reaching that "throw the machine out the window" stage when I had an idea. When embedded in other code this
seems to only work when embedded in a sequence container to ensure that the EST happens before the FeLC.
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#1 harty 2009-08-21 12:16 0
Just wanted to say Thank you for your blog. I really appreciate such resources where people write about real life,
real problems, real joy... Your resource belongs to my favorites.
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