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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services: An Expert Cookbook

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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services: An Expert Cookbook

Overview of this book

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a leading tool in the data warehouse industry - used for performing extraction, transformation, and load operations. This book is aligned with the most common methodology associated with SSIS known as Extract Transform and Load (ETL); ETL is responsible for the extraction of data from several sources, their cleansing, customization, and loading into a central repository normally called Data Warehouse or Data Mart.Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services: An Expert Cookbook covers all the aspects of SSIS 2012 with lots of real-world scenarios to help readers understand usages of SSIS in every environment. Written by two SQL Server MVPs who have in-depth knowledge of SSIS having worked with it for many years.This book starts by creating simple data transfer packages with wizards and illustrates how to create more complex data transfer packages, troubleshoot packages, make robust SSIS packages, and how to boost the performance of data consolidation with SSIS. It then covers data flow transformations and advanced transformations for data cleansing, fuzzy and term extraction in detail. The book then dives deep into making a dynamic package with the help of expressions and variables, and performance tuning and consideration.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services: An Expert Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


SSIS packages and projects should be run on a machine that is usually called an SSIS server. In some scenarios companies decide to use the same database server as an SSIS server, and in some cases, companies decide to use a dedicated server as an SSIS server. Choosing between a dedicated SSIS server or using an existing database server as an SSIS server is a decision that requires the consideration of resource consumption for running SSIS packages, expected load, and availability of servers.

Running, or in the other words, the execution of SSIS packages and projects should be different in a production environment because production environments do not have SSDT installed in most cases. In this chapter, we will discuss and illustrate the different methods of executing a package and project.

In most cases, SSIS packages are executed on a scheduled basis, but there are some cases where an administrator or authorized user needs to run the package "on demand". SSIS packages can be...