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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 is a Rapid Application Development tool that helps developers to create data transfer packages with designers and needs less coding, so that the development speed will be much faster. On the other hand, a development tool needs debugging and error-handling features. Fortunately SSIS has a debugging feature in Control Flow scope, also error handling fortified SSIS packages.

In this chapter, we will take a deep look at debugging in Control Flow and error handling in Data Flow. More event handler options will be discussed in a separate chapter later in this book.

SSIS 2012 provides some Views and Stored Procedures that monitor SSIS packages and helps SSIS administrator in some administrative tasks. This feature is one of the advantages of SSIS 2012 over its prior versions. In this chapter, we will discuss these management views.

Migrating from the earlier versions of SSIS such as 2005, 2008, and 2008R2 to 2012 is fully supported in SSIS 2012. There is a migration wizard which...