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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

Creating and configuring Control Flow Tasks programmatically


Control Flow Tasks are executable objects in an SSIS package. Creating those objects programmatically and configuring them are the first steps of SSIS programming. In other words, you cannot create a package without any task!

Package is the main object which is needed in order to do SSIS Programming . SSIS Package is under the Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime namespace. In this recipe, we will create a package and add a File System Task to it to copy a file to a destination folder.

Getting ready

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is needed to do this recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Open SSDT or Visual Studio. Under Visual C#, create a Console Application project and name it as R01_Creating and Configuring Control Flow Task Programmatically.

  2. In the Solution Explorer, right-click on the References folder and click on Add reference.

  3. In the Add Reference window, go to the .NET tab and select Microsoft.SQLServer.ManagedDTS and then click OK.

  4. Right-click on...