Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services:
This course will enable technology professionals with little or no ETL experience to be comfortable and productive with the SSIS tools and technologies. In this course you will learn about the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) and working with Control and Data Flows to build workflows to extract, transform, and load data using a variety of data sources, transformations, and destinations. You will also become familiar with SSIS package management and package deployment along with learning to write solid code using debugging, error handling, and logging techniques.
In this course, you will learn:
- How to use BIDS to create well-designed packages.
- About Control Flows, how to build them using many of the built-in tasks, including the various containers.
- How to use the Data Flow task to perform primary ETL operations.
- About variable and configurations to make your packages dynamic and resilient to changes in environments.
- About the features in BIDS and Integration Services that help you troubleshoot a package.
- How to deploy and manage packages effectively.
- How to write script so that you can go beyond the built-in tasks, data sources and destinations, and transformations, as well as building and using custom components.
- Best practices that will make it easier to develop and maintain a package over its entire life cycle.
- About using Integration Services for tasks other than traditional ETL operations.
Contents:
A Guided Tour of Integration Services
- Understanding Integration Services
- Exploring and Executing an Integration Services Package in BIDS
- Exploring and Executing a Package Outside of BIDS
Control Flow
- Overview of Control Flow in Integration Services
- Working with Workflow Tasks
- Precedence Constraints
Data Flows
- The Data Flow Task
- Data Viewers
- Data Flow Transformations
Variables and Configurations
- Understanding Variables
- Using Variables in Control Flow
- Using Variables in Data Flow
- Configurations
- Using Variables and Configurations between Packages
Advanced Control Flow
- Advanced Control Flow Overview
- Using Containers
- Transactions Support in Integration Services
Error Handling and Logging
- When Things Go Wrong
- Checkpoints
- Handling Errors and Debugging
- Packaging Logging
- Event Handling
Advanced Data Flow
- Synchronous and Asynchronous Transformations
- Using Advanced Transformations
- Handling Slowly Changing Dimensions
Package Deployment
- Deploying Packages
- Create a Package Deployment Utility
- Installing a Package
- Redeploying Updated Packages
Package Management
- Overview of Package Management
- Managing Integration Services Packages
- Executing Packages
- Integration Services Security
Scripting and Custom Components
- Extending Integration Services Capabilities through Code
- Scripting in Control Flows with the Script Task
- Scripting in Data Flows with the Script Component
- Custom Integration Services Components
Best Practices
- Best Practices for Using Integration Services
- Best Practices for Package Development and Design
- Data Flow Best Practices
- Deployment and Management Best Practices
Going Beyond ETL
- Using Integration Services Beyond ETL
- Migrating and Maintaining SQL Servers with Integration Services
- Working with Analysis Services
- Working with Windows Management Instrumentation