Source components

Source components deliver data for a transformation stream. A project typically starts with one or more source components. Source components have no IN-ports and at least one OUT-port.

Component

Description

DB Data Provider Full Load

Extracts data from any data source accessible by an ODBC connection or a native driver (DB2, Oracle, Sybase), or from Microsoft SQL Server via OLE DB.

DB Data Provider Index Load

Performs incremental data loads. The incremental load is controlled by an ascending index attribute that contains the ascending values.

Text Data Provider

Reads and transforms structured data from a text file into a table.

XML via SQL Data Provider

Loads hierarchical XML data into a relational schema.

CDC Provider Sybase Replication Server

Receives source table data changes from Replication Server, translates the data to the standard ETL data flow, and then sends the data to the next component.