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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

Dynamic connection managers


Connections can be created at package level or project level, and in both cases these connections can be configured to change at runtime. A common scenario where a dynamic connection is required happens when a package should execute against different development or production environments. The option of doing it manually each time a connection change, can be time consuming and even more dangerous.

Getting ready

To get ready for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Open SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and create a new SSIS project.

  2. Provide a name and a location for the SSIS project and proceed.

  3. Select the package created by default and rename it to: P01_DynamicConnections.dtsx.

How to do it...

Imagine the scenario where customer data is read from SQL database and inserted into a flat file. This simple example has two connections that will be configured to be changed at runtime through expressions that use SSIS variables that store the respective connection strings inside.

  1. Add...