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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

Data Tap


Those who normally use the data viewer (to identify the records that go along the pipeline) will be now surprised. In this new version, it's possible to have data viewers dynamically created without having to open and edit a particular package. This type of data viewer is named Data Tap and is one of the best features included in this release. During a batch package execution, it is possible to identify the records that are flowing between any components under any Data Flow Task.

This new feature is just available in the Project Deployment Model approach, because the data stored from the Data Tap is stored in SSISDB Catalog.

Getting ready

To get started with this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Open SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).

  2. Add a new SSIS project to open the SSIS solution and name the project R05_Data tap.

How to do it...

The next steps will explain how to create a simple Data Viewer under a data flow and then a Data Tap in the exact same location.

  1. In Solution Explorer, locate the project...