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SQL Server 2017 Integration Services Cookbook

By : Cote, David Peter Hansen, Dejan Sarka, Samuel Lester, Lah, Olivier
Book Image

SQL Server 2017 Integration Services Cookbook

By: Cote, David Peter Hansen, Dejan Sarka, Samuel Lester, Lah, 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 (12 chapters)

Installing a Hortonworks cluster


In the previous recipe, we created and managed files using an Azure Blob storage. This recipe will do similar actions but this time using an on-premises Hadoop cluster.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you can download and install a virtual machine on your PC.

How to do it...

  1. You will need to download and install a Hortonworks sandbox for this recipe. Go to https://hortonworks.com/downloads/ to download a Docker version of the sandbox. You can choose the sandbox you want, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Download the VM you want; in our case, we used the last one, DOWNLOAD FOR DOCKER. Once done, follow the instructions to configure it and make sure you have added the following entry to the %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file:
127.0.0.1 sandbox.hortonworks.com 

This is shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Open your browser and navigate to http://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8888. Your browser screen should look like the following screenshot:

  1. Click...