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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

Scheduling an SSIS package execution


In this recipe, you are going to create an SQL Server Agent job with a single step using an SSIS package, configured with a specific SSIS environment. You are going to assign a schedule to the job so that it can be executed automatically.

SQL Server Agent is a special SQL Server feature, hosted on the SQL Server instance, which supports the automation of a variety of operations and processes. One of them is the execution of SSIS packages; these can be configured as one or more steps of an SQL Server Agent job.

Note

SQL Server Agent and SQL Server Agent jobsSQL Server Agent is available in SQL Server 2016 Enterprise, Standard, and Web editions; it is not available in the Express, nor Express with Advanced Services editions.SQL Server Agent Job is a collection of one or more operations that represent a complete unit of work to be performed automatically, for example, on a schedule. Multiple steps of an SQL Server Agent job are executed in sequence.

In addition...