BizTalk Server Teach me something new about Flat Files (or not) Part II video and slides are available at Integration Monday

Last year I presented several sessions on Integration Monday community but I never had the chance, for several and different reasons, to proper highlight on my personal blog. The second session that I delivered last year was the second part of the topic BizTalk Server: Teach me something new about Flat Files (or not) Part II.

In that session I tried to address and solve the following questions:

  • How to suppress Empty Lines everywhere (end or middle)?
  • My positional flat-file contains data that does not match the length expected (and they are not filled with empty spaces). How can I handle that?
  • What if we don’t want to remove Headers but… in fact we want to deal with Headers and Trailers?
  • Do I need to always create a custom pipeline for dealing with Flat-Files? Or it is possible to create a Generic Pipeline?

That was the sixth session that I deliver for that community:

About my session

Session Name: BizTalk Server: Teach me something new about Flat Files (or not) Part II

BizTalk Server Teach me something new about Flat Files (or not) Part II

Session Overview: This is the second part of Sandro Pereira’s earlier presentation on flat files on Integration Monday. You can watch the video recording of the previous session here.

Despite over the year’s new protocols, formats or patterns emerged like Web Services, WCF RESTful services, XML, JSON, among others. The use of text files (Flat Files) as CSV (Comma Separated Values) or TXT, one of the oldest common patterns for exchanging messages, still remains today one of the most used standards in systems integration and/or communication with business partners.

While tools like Excel can help us interpret such files, this type of process is always iterative and requires few user tips so that software can determine where there is a need to separate the fields/columns as well the data type of each field. But for system integration (Enterprise Application Integration) like BizTalk Server, you must reduce any ambiguity, so that these kinds of operations can be performed thousands of times with confidence and without having recourse to a manual operator.

You can see the recording session here: BizTalk Server: Teach me something new about Flat Files (or not) Part II.

About Integration Monday

Integration Monday is full of great sessions that you can watch and I will also take this opportunity to invite you all to join us next Monday.

Author: Sandro Pereira

Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and works as a consultant at DevScope. In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premises and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size, and criticality, using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO etc. He is a regular blogger, international speaker, and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books all focused on Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices”. He has been awarded MVP since 2011 for his contributions to the integration community.

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