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SQL Server 2017 Integration Services Cookbook

By : Christian Cote, Dejan Sarka, David Peter Hansen, Matija Lah, Samuel Lester, Christo Olivier
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SQL Server 2017 Integration Services Cookbook

By: Christian Cote, Dejan Sarka, David Peter Hansen, Matija Lah, Samuel Lester, Christo Olivier

Overview of this book

SQL Server Integration Services is a tool that facilitates data extraction, consolidation, and loading options (ETL), SQL Server coding enhancements, data warehousing, and customizations. With the help of the recipes in this book, you’ll gain complete hands-on experience of SSIS 2017 as well as the 2016 new features, design and development improvements including SCD, Tuning, and Customizations. At the start, you’ll learn to install and set up SSIS as well other SQL Server resources to make optimal use of this Business Intelligence tools. We’ll begin by taking you through the new features in SSIS 2016/2017 and implementing the necessary features to get a modern scalable ETL solution that fits the modern data warehouse. Through the course of chapters, you will learn how to design and build SSIS data warehouses packages using SQL Server Data Tools. Additionally, you’ll learn to develop SSIS packages designed to maintain a data warehouse using the Data Flow and other control flow tasks. You’ll also be demonstrated many recipes on cleansing data and how to get the end result after applying different transformations. Some real-world scenarios that you might face are also covered and how to handle various issues that you might face when designing your packages. At the end of this book, you’ll get to know all the key concepts to perform data integration and transformation. You’ll have explored on-premises Big Data integration processes to create a classic data warehouse, and will know how to extend the toolbox with custom tasks and transforms.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Using parallelism


This section will now focus on how we can enhance the performance of our package execution. Using parallelism in SSIS is very easy. A simple use of parallelism is in the entrypoint packages. Other parallelism can be implemented in the data flow tasks by using multiple source and destination components. In fact, every source we use in a data flow task has its own thread in SSIS, meaning that SSIS will try to execute all source transforms at once using different hardware resources.

In this recipe, we'll complete the entry-point package for the DW schema load. In this package, we have linked the dimensions together first. We now think that there are no dependencies between them and we'll separate them.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you have access to this book's sample solution.

How to do it...

  1. From the SSIS.Etl project, open the EP.D_Sequential package from the solution explorer.
  2. You'll see that all dimensions are called in sequence, one after the other. An execute package...