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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

Azure tasks and transforms


This section will guide you on how to install the Azure Feature Pack that, in turn, will install Azure control flow task and data flow components. The Azure ecosystem is becoming predominant in Microsoft ecosystems and SSIS has not been left over in the past few years.

The Azure Feature Pack is not an SSIS 2016 specific feature. It's also available for SSIS version 2012 and 2014. It's worth mentioning that it appeared in July 2015, a few months before the SSIS 2016 release.

Getting ready

This section assumes that you have installed SQL Server Data Tools 2015.

How to do it...

We'll start SQL Server Data Tools, and open the CustomLogging project if not already done:

  1. In the SSIS Toolbox, scroll to the Azure group. Since the Azure tools are not installed with SSDT, the Azure group is disabled in the toolbox. Thee toolss must be downloaded using a separate installer. Click on the Azure group to expand it and click on Download Azure Feature Pack as shown in the following screenshot...