Saturday, March 16, 2019

Unions in OLEDB Source can kill performance in SSIS, How to handle this?

If you write SQL with many UNION in OLEDB source transformation then you will find the SSIS package is running slow.

For example, you may require many SQL unions to populate the data set as like below:
SELECT x,y,z,z1,z2
FROM tblA

UNION
SELECT x,y,z,z1,z2
FROM tblB

UNION
SELECT x,y,z,z1,z2
FROM tblC

UNION
SELECT x,y,z,z1,z2
FROM tblD

UNION
SELECT x,y,z,z1,z2
FROM tblN


Fig 1: OLEDB source 

Instead of using the above SQL in OLEDB source, you can use Union All transformation which is much faster in compare with using the SQL code in OLEDB source.

Fig 2: Union All Transformation