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.
2008-09-19
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By using SQL Server 2008’s new Data Profiling task, you can do a lot to ensure that data being imported via SSIS is valid, and you can develop a system that can take the necessary steps to correct the commonest problems. Bob Sheldon shows you how to get started with it.
2008-09-18
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Business Intelligence expert Vincent Rainardi brings us a new article that looks at how you can profile your data to understand its values and distribution using Integration Services.
2008-09-03
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SSIS has achieved several new and interesting features in SQL Server 2008. And who better to guide you through them and explain them but Robert Sheldon.
2008-08-28
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SQL Server MVP and SSIS guru, Andy Leonard, discusses Integration Services and some of the tasks and containers that he uses quite often.
2010-02-05 (first published: 2008-08-21)
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The OUTPUT clause was a new feature in SQL Server 2005 that can prove very handy in many situations. New author Gennadiy Chornenkyy brings us a look at how you can add this code to your SSIS packages and retrieve ID values back from the database.
2008-08-18
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In part one of this series from Actuality Business Intelligence, Ira Whiteside brings us a look at building your own SSIS transformation.
2008-07-30
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Use the DTUTIL Command Prompt Utility to Copy / Install / Delete the SSIS Package deployed in MSDB Database to file system
2008-07-09
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This tutorial walks you through the process of adding SQL statements to your SSIS packages and bundling them into logical units of work if necessary.
2008-06-23
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This article describes how to use variables in SSIS to dynamically generate folders and file placement.
2008-06-17
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