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Build a Metadata-Driven ETL Platform by Extending Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services

SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS) provides a flexible and scalable architecture that enables high-performance data extract, transform, and load (ETL). The Microsoft Business Intelligence Center of Excellence has extended SSIS to a metadata-driven platform to more effectively build, deploy, and manage ETL processes in large data warehousing environments.

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2008-09-19

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Data Warehouse Capacity Planning as Capacity Enforcement

Capacity planning is a problem for a data warehouse because it sets contrasting functional requirements against each other. On one hand, data warehouse customers consume data warehouse capacity as they query the data in the data warehouse business intelligence (BI) reporting. Meanwhile, applications consume data warehouse capacity as they load data into a data warehouse through the extract, transform and load (ETL) process.

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2008-09-19

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SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 30 - Distributed Service Broker Environment - Endpoints

In the latest articles of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we have been discussing Service Broker. This article describes the initial setup of components required to demonstrate a distributed implementation, with initiator and target services residing on two separate computers.

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2008-09-18

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