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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

Foreach Loop Container: looping through result set of a database query


Foreach Loop Container is one of the two loop structures in the SSIS Control Flow, and it can be said strongly that this is the most useful. The Foreach Loop provides a method of looping through seven different types of enumerators and can loop through different types of collections. Collection types vary from files in a folder to nodes in xml data or records in a database table.

In this recipe, we will take a closer look at the ADO enumerator and one of the most useful real world scenarios of using this container.

Suppose that we want to loop through different SQL Server database servers, each server having a different server name and different database name. We read list of all tables with their schema from each database. We want to use a single Data Flow to extract data from an OLE DB Source and load it into an Excel destination, and we need to run this Data Flow for each server and append all the data from all servers...