SSIS Naming conventions

In 2006 Jamie Thomson came up with naming conventions for SSIS tasks and data flow components. These naming conventions make your packages and logs more readable. Five SQL Server versions and a decade later a couple of tasks and components were deprecated, but there were also a lot of new tasks and components introduced by Microsoft.

Together with Koen Verbeeck (B|T) and André Kamman (B|T) we extended the existing list with almost 40 tasks/components and created a PowerShell Script that should make it easier to check/force the naming conventions. This PowerShell script will soon be published at GitHub as a PowerShell module. But for now you can download and test the fully working proof of concept script. Download both ps1 files and the CSV file. Then open "naming conventions v4.ps1" and change the parameters before executing it. The script works with local packages because you can't read individual package from the catalog, but you can use a powershell script to download your packages from the catalog.

PowerShell Naming Conventions Checker

Task name	Prefix	Type	New
For Loop Container	FLC	Container
Foreach Loop Container	FELC	Container
Sequence Container	SEQC	Container
ActiveX Script	AXS	Task
Analysis Services Execute DDL Task	ASE	Task
Analysis Services Processing Task	ASP	Task
Azure Blob Download Task	ADT	Task	*
Azure Blob Upload Task	AUT	Task	*
Azure HDInsight Create Cluster Task	ACCT	Task	*
Azure HDInsight Delete Cluster Task	ACDT	Task	*
Azure HDInsight Hive Task	AHT	Task	*
Azure HDInsight Pig Task	APT	Task	*
Back Up Database Task	BACKUP	Task	*
Bulk Insert Task	BLK	Task
CDC Control Task	CDC	Task	*
Check Database Integrity Task	CHECKDB	Task	*
Data Flow Task	DFT	Task
Data Mining Query Task	DMQ	Task
Data Profiling Task	DPT	Task	*
Execute Package Task	EPT	Task
Execute Process Task	EPR	Task
Execute SQL Server Agent Job Task	AGENT	Task	*
Execute SQL Task	SQL	Task
Execute T-SQL Statement Task	TSQL	Task	*
Expression Task	EXPR	Task
File System Task	FSYS	Task
FTP Task	FTP	Task
Hadoop File System Task	HFSYS	Task	*
Hadoop Hive Task	HIVE	Task	*
Hadoop Pig Task	PIG	Task	*
History Cleanup Task	HISTCT	Task	*
Maintenance Cleanup Task	MAINCT	Task	*
Message Queue Task	MSMQ	Task
Notify Operator Task	NOT	Task	*
Rebuild Index Task	REBIT	Task	*
Reorganize Index Task	REOIT	Task	*
Script Task	SCR	Task
Send Mail Task	SMT	Task
Shrink Database Task	SHRINKDB	Task	*
Transfer Database Task	TDB	Task
Transfer Error Messages Task	TEM	Task
Transfer Jobs Task	TJT	Task
Transfer Logins Task	TLT	Task
Transfer Master Stored Procedures Task	TSP	Task
Transfer SQL Server Objects Task	TSO	Task
Update Statistics Task	STAT	Task	*
Web Service Task	WST	Task
WMI Data Reader Task	WMID	Task
WMI Event Watcher Task	WMIE	Task
XML Task	XML	Task
Transformation name	Prefix	Type	New
ADO NET Source	ADO_SRC	Source	*
Azure Blob Source	AB_SRC	Source	*
CDC Source	CDC_SRC	Source	*
DataReader Source	DR_SRC	Source
Excel Source	EX_SRC	Source
Flat File Source	FF_SRC	Source
HDFS File Source	HDFS_SRC	Source	*
OData Source	ODATA_SRC	Source	*
ODBC Source	ODBC_SRC	Source	*
OLE DB Source	OLE_SRC	Source
Raw File Source	RF_SRC	Source
SharePoint List Source	SPL_SRC	Source
XML Source	XML_SRC	Source
Aggregate	AGG	Transformation
Audit	AUD	Transformation
Balanced Data Distributor	BDD	Transformation	*
Cache Transform	CCH	Transformation	*
CDC Splitter	CDCS	Transformation	*
Character Map	CHM	Transformation
Conditional Split	CSPL	Transformation
Copy Column	CPYC	Transformation
Data Conversion	DCNV	Transformation
Data Mining Query	DMQ	Transformation
Derived Column	DER	Transformation
DQS Cleansing	DQSC	Transformation	*
Export Column	EXPC	Transformation
Fuzzy Grouping	FZG	Transformation
Fuzzy Lookup	FZL	Transformation
Import Column	IMPC	Transformation
Lookup	LKP	Transformation
Merge	MRG	Transformation
Merge Join	MRGJ	Transformation
Multicast	MLT	Transformation
OLE DB Command	CMD	Transformation
Percentage Sampling	PSMP	Transformation
Pivot	PVT	Transformation
Row Count	CNT	Transformation
Row Sampling	RSMP	Transformation
Script Component	SCR	Transformation
Slowly Changing Dimension	SCD	Transformation
Sort	SRT	Transformation
Term Extraction	TEX	Transformation
Term Lookup	TEL	Transformation
Union All	ALL	Transformation
Unpivot	UPVT	Transformation
ADO NET Destination	ADO_DST	Destination	*
Azure Blob Destination	AB_DST	Destination	*
Data Mining Model Training	DMMT_DST	Destination
Data Streaming Destination	DS_DST	Destination	*
DataReaderDest	DR_DST	Destination
Dimension Processing	DP_DST	Destination
Excel Destination	EX_DST	Destination
Flat File Destination	FF_DST	Destination
HDFS File Destination	HDFS_DST	Destination	*
ODBC Destination	ODBC_DST	Destination	*
OLE DB Destination	OLE_DST	Destination
Partition Processing	PP_DST	Destination
Raw File Destination	RF_DST	Destination
Recordset Destination	RS_DST	Destination
SharePoint List Destination	SPL_DST	Destination
SQL Server Compact Destination	SSC_DST	Destination	*
SQL Server Destination	SS_DST	Destination

Example of the prefixes