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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

Working with database connections in Data Flow


In this recipe, we will explore the OLE DB Source and Destination, ADO.NET Source and Destination, and SQL Server Destination. These are the most common components used to move data from sources to destinations.

All the database connections provide a way to connect to the underlying database which can range from DB2 database to Oracle and MS SQL Server databases. For some of the databases we may need to install the Data Provider, but after installing the Data Provider we can use sources/destinations to connect to the underlying database.

In this recipe, different database sources and destinations will be explored and their pros and cons in different scenarios will be considered.

In this recipe, we will create a table in the MySQL database and transfer its data into SQL Server database table.

Getting ready

  1. To install MySQL on Windows, you need to download WampServer which is available at http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php. Install the WampServer...