Calling ProcessData in SSIS to incrementally load data into tabular partitions

Previously, I showed a pattern for incrementally loading data by creating a partition, doing a ProcessData on the partition, then doing a ProcessRecalc on the database all in a single transaction. It is possible to do the same thing in an Integration Services package. Let's take a look.

We cannot use the Analysis Services Processing task for this chore. This is because the task was not updated for SQL Server 2012, so ProcessRecalc is not an option. Therefore, if we want to use a built in Analysis Services task, we must use the Analysis Services Execute DDL task to do this work.