Implementing & Maintaining SQL 2005 Integration Services (SSIS)

The course discusses how to develop, deploy, and manage Integration Services packages.

Who should attend?

This course is intended for information technology (IT) professionals and developers who need to implement data transfer or extract, transform, and load (ETL) solutions by using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services.

Delegates will be able to

• Describe SQL Server Integration Services and its tools.
• Create an Integration Services package.
• Implement control flow in an Integration Services package.
• Implement data flow in an Integration Services package.
• Implement logging in an Integration Services package.
• Debug and implement error handling in an Integration Services package.
• Implement checkpoints and transactions in an Integration Services package.
• Deploy an Integration Services package.
• Manage and secure an Integration Services package

Pre-requisites

Experience with these products or technologies is strongly recommended

• Exposure to enterprise data import and export scenarios
• Experience navigating the Microsoft Windows Server environment
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, including: SQL Server Agent; SQL Server query language (SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE); SQL Server System tables; SQL Server accounts (users and permissions)

Topics covered

Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

• Understand Integration Services in extracting, transforming and loading data
• Introduction in building & managing Integration Services and Solutions

Developing Integration Services Solutions

• Introduction to the development tasks in Integration Services Package

Implementing Control Flow

• Tasks and constraints that control flow of an Integration Services Package

Implementing Data Flow

• Introduction to data flow sources
• Implementation of a data flow task in Integration Services
• Flow paths to direct valid and invalid rows

Implementing Logging

• Using logging in an Integration Services Package
• How to configure and use logging providers

Debugging and Error Handling

• How to debug Integration Services packages
• Using debugging tools in the business intelligence development studio
• How to implement error-handling logic

Implementing Checkpoints and Transactions

• What checkpoints are and how to implement them
• Implementing transaction data access logic

Configuring & Deploying Packages

• Create package configurations
• How to deploy Integration Services packages to production servers

Managing and Securing Packages

• Introduction to the management tasks
• How to deploy Integration Services packages to production servers