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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

Executing and managing packages programmatically


One of the most useful aspects of SSIS programming is executing and managing packages. We can load a package from DTSX file or SQL Server, add or configure logging parameters and other configuration, and execute it. This is a very useful ability because you may want to create a .NET application for managing packages, so you will need to run and manage packages programmatically.

In this recipe, we will save the package from the Working with Data Flow components programmatically recipe and then add logging to it and execute it.

Getting ready

As this recipe is a complement to the previous recipe, just do steps 1 to 17 from previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Write the following statements after step 17 of the previous recipe to save the package as a DTSX file:

    Application app = new Application();
    app.SaveToXml(@"C:\SSIS\Ch14_Programming SSIS\Files\R03_Package.dtsx", pkg, null);
  2. Create an SSIS project and right-click on the SSIS Packages folder and add...