Protean

Some of the companies I’ve worked for have had reporting contracts with smaller 3rd party providers. Campaign or website analysis provided by them would have to be loaded to the datawarehouse

Security policy dissallowed downloading the files over FTP, because credentials are passed in clear text, and our 3rd party report providers didn’t have a sFTP facility, so in this scenario what other options are available?

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ExecutionInstanceGUID is a system variable of type string. If you are exporting this variable to a package management, custom logging or auditing table ensure that you have the correct mapping in your execute SQL task. It is a string variable and not a GUID (the same applies to other variables whose type may not be the same as the value they represent).

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