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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

Transactions: Doing multiple operations atomic


Doing multiple operations atomic is one of the fundamentals of each application which works with data. Many applications have transaction support; transactions are operations that will be run as one unique atomic operation. An atomic operation means that all operations will be run successfully or if an error happens and one of them caused the error all of them will rollback.

SSIS supports transactions also, but SSIS transaction differs from database transaction. SSIS can do most of the tasks atomically, you can copy files from source place to destination, extract them, transfer them to database, and if any error occurs you can rollback all operations.

SSIS uses the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator service (MS DTC) for transactions. Microsoft applications use this service for handling their transactions, for example you will see that WCF uses this service for managing transactions also. So for using transactions in SSIS this service...