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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

Sending and receiving files through FTP: FTP Task


The FTP Task gives us the ability to send files from a local system to a remote host or retrieve them from a remote host to a local system. There are other types of operations such as creating a remote folder or local folder. This task is very handy because FTP is in use between many companies for sharing their data. A company may export all its data into some CSV files, ZIP them and put them on an FTP address, and another company may need to get those files from FTP. The FTP Task also provides a way to work with multiple files.

How to do it...

  1. Create new Integration Services project and name it R03_FTP Task.

  2. In the package Control Flow, drag-and-drop an FTP Task and name it FTP_ReceiveFiles.

  3. Double-click on FTP_ReceiveFiles to open the FTP Task Editor.

  4. In the General tab of the FTP Connection property, create a new FTP Connection Manager. In the FTP Connection Manager Editor dialog window, type ftp.microsoft.com in Server Name. Leave all other...