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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

Logging over Legacy Deployment Model


The approach used in the previous version of SSIS is called Legacy Deployment Model or Package Deployment Model. By default, in an empty solution, SSIS sets the SSIS solution using the Project Deployment Mode, but converting can easily be done as the following screenshot demonstrates:

All the SSIS logging created through the SSIS Log Provider or even through custom logging is still very useful if the deployment approach is Legacy. However, the new deployment approach has a new SSIS Catalog that automatically logs all package execution activity along with some built-in reports that provide a more intuitive perspective over log activity and also provide information about all deployments and configurations done to the SSIS Catalog.

Getting ready

To get ready for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and execute the SQL Statement included in the file C:\SSIS\Ch02_Control Flow Tasks\Files\R09_CreateDimProduct.sql

  2. Open SQL Server...