An authoritative guide to designing effective solutions for datacleansing, ETL, and file management with SQL Server 2008Integration Services
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the leading tool inthe data warehouse industry, used for performing extraction,transformation, and load operations.
After an overview of SSIS architecture, the authors walk you aseries of real-world problems and show various techniques forhandling them.
- Shows you how to design SSIS solutions for data cleansing, ETLand file management
- Demonstrates how to integrate data from a variety of datasources,
- Shows how to monitor SSIS performance,
- Demonstrates how to avoid common pitfalls involved with SSISdeployment
- Explains how to ensure performance of the deployed solution andeffectively handle unexpected system failures and outages
- The companion Web site provides sample code and databasescripts that readers can directly implement
This book shows you how to design, build, deploy, and managesolutions to real-world problems that SSIS administrators anddevelopers face day-to-day.
Build practical SSIS solutions to real-world problems SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the most widelyadopted Business Intelligence (BI) component of SQL Server and theleading extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool in thedata warehouse industry. Written by a team of Microsoft MVPs forSQL Server, this book presents you with an array of common problemsthat SSIS administrators and developers face on a daily basis, andwalks you through the steps necessary to solve thesechallenges.
Demonstrates how to solve common pitfalls involved with SSISdeployment
Shares solutions for challenges you may encounter with packagedeployment and storage decisions
Explores file handling and processing methods
Reviews best practices for data extraction
Covers the basic concepts and challenges of dimension table ETLand fact table ETL
Solves problems that may arise with scripting design patternsand SSIS package scaling
Discusses how to effectively scale and performance-tune SSISpackages
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