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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

Protection level: Securing sensitive data


Packages are XML files; all Control Flow and Data Flow settings, every task and component are listed in the XML file. So accessing this file needs to be considered before deployment.

SSIS provides a way to protect information stored in packages with encryption. There are a number of options for how that encryption can be opened. Packages contain two types of data: data related to structure of data transfer, like Data Flow components or Control Flow tasks, and connection string passwords or any other information that is very important and shouldn't be easy to access; this information is called sensitive data.

There are a number of protection levels to protect a package's information. In this recipe, we will talk about protection levels and how to use them and their differences.

How to do it...

  1. Open R03_Package Deployment Model project in SSDT.

  2. Open P02_Child.dtsx, click on an empty area in Control Flow, then go to the File menu and then Save Copy of Package...