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Asked: 2026-06-13T17:00:40+00:00

I’m building an application that receive positional flat files from a legacy application and

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I’m building an application that receive positional flat files from a legacy application and for each detail row I need to search inside a third application for some data and then fill up my database. And in case of any mal formed line in file, I need to stop de processing and log the line and position of malformed string.

At least for now, the files have, max. 50MB.

I’m very confuse who is best suitable for this scenario, Biztalk and SSIS have similar features and, as far I can see, both are suitable in this scenario. This is a task I could make a good use of Biztalk or I should go with a ETL solution (Integration Services) ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would probably do this in SSIS. It appears to be a ETL job. BizTalk might give you better flexibility given the source of the data long term but if as you say it’s a web service this is something that can be accomplished in SSIS.

    Generally speaking SSIS = batch process and direct data translations. BizTalk = Messaging / horizontal systems requests / responses that may or may not need to be synchronized.

    But don’t take my word for it. Include effort, software costs if they matter, and longevity of this process.

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