Azure Data Warehouse has a nice feature where it can access GZipped file blobs directly from Azure Storage as linked tables. The below code is for downloading zipped files from an SFTP site, extracting them, gzipping them and then uploading them to Azure Storage. This all takes place in memory Read more…
Downloading SFTP files in console applications. I use the WinSCP dll to download files from SFTP sites in SSDT, as shown here, but this approach doesn’t work in .NET Core applications as the WinSCP dll isn’t available as a NuGet package. An alternative to WinSCP is SSH.NET, which amoung other Read more…
Downloading SFTP files in SSDT. I often need to download files from an SFTP site in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), the best way I’ve found of doing this is a script task that hooks into WinSCP. WinSCP and it’s dlls can be downloaded here. Once installed, the dll should Read more…