I have been asked by many new SSIS developer about difference between Merge and Union all transformation in SSIS.
Well both of them essentially takes outputs from more than one sources and combines them into a single result set but there are couple of differences between two:
a) Merge transformation can accept only two inputs whereas Union all can take more than two inputs
b) Data has to be sorted before Merge Transformation whereas Union all doesn't have any condition like that.
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ReplyDeletecan you please post some more conceptual SSIS/SSRS questions for Interview point of view
thanks mate !
ReplyDeletegood answer
ReplyDeletenice answer, apreciate
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So having read that, why would there ever be a
ReplyDeletereason to use the merge operator over the
union all?
Then what is the Advantage of using Merge transformation.
ReplyDeleteI treat SSIS UNION ALL transformation same as UNION ALL in TSQL
ReplyDeleteCan you please explain of there is any difference interms of performace?
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Kamakshi Suram
Hi Kamakshi,
ReplyDeleteUnion AlL is faster than Merge even if you have to Sort data after Union All..
Thanks
What's the difference Between merge and merge join in ssis
ReplyDeleteThanks Rahul
ReplyDeleteKamakshi Suram
Thanks a lot For the short and beautiful explanation
ReplyDeleteHi all,
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Stored procedure will Run fst because Stored procedure is Already precompiled and Stored in database no need to take n/w traffic,but query takes N/w traffic for each statemnt to execute
ReplyDeleteDiff between Merge and merge join :
ReplyDeleteMerge join:it Behave likes Normal joins in Sql sever joins(Inner join,left) it adding a new column to data flow Based on Matched values in Common columns
Merge:it just clubing data(union all),no need to join any common columns
Similarity:Both are using merge Transformation before using this transformations
Why we going to merge when it can be done with union all
ReplyDeletewhy might need merge instead of union all because i believe union all is only for records that are already in the data pipieline stream, whereas merge can be used for example, flat files which are not in the pipeline stream yet.?
ReplyDeleteAlthough the post is about diff btwn Merge and Merge Join, could someone explain when do we use which transformation using a scenario?
ReplyDeleteRahul if you haven't yet posted a article on my question, please do that for the benefit of many. Thank you.
Nice, Keep it up
ReplyDeleteIf the source is XML, excel, file, other than a table then we require to use this component in SSIS to extract the data
ReplyDeleteGreat! Simple and sweet explanation!
ReplyDeleteI believe that a great difference between merge and union also is that the merge make that two data source mix the information with some field that share the same information and the sentence Union add all rows of both data sources, making a destination with the total of two data source
ReplyDeleteHi There,
ReplyDeleteHot! That was HOT! Glued to the #topic your proficiency and style!
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Thanks,
Kevin
Hello Rahul,
ReplyDeleteGreat post. Well thought out. This piece reminds me when I was starting out Difference between Merge and Union all transformation after graduating from college.
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