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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

Migrating packages to 2012


SSIS 2012 is the latest version of SSIS and packages which were developed and created by SSIS 2005 and 2008 can be converted to the 2012 version simply with help of the Project Conversion Wizard. But there are a few exceptions.

As we mentioned earlier, the ActiveX Script Task and Execute DTS 2000 Package Task are no longer supported in SSIS 2012, so packages with these tasks should use alternative options. For ActiveX Script Task a much better alternative is Script Task with support of .NET 4.0 Framework. And the alternative for Execute DTS 2000 Package Task is Execute Package Task which works with SSIS packages.

Another thing to note in SSIS 2012 package is that configurations no longer exist in Project Deployment Model, but are replaced by parameters. If you want to use package configuration you can still be on legacy Package Deployment Model. But don't worry, because parameters in Project Deployment Model do everything package configuration did earlier and also...