Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

Description

This book will help you get past the initial learning curve quickly so that you can get started using SSIS to transform data, create a workflow, or maintain your SQL Server. Offering you hands-on guidance, you'll learn a new world of integration possibilities and be able to move away from scripting complex logic to programming tasks using a full-featured language.

What you will learn from this book
* Ways to quickly move and transform data
* How to configure every aspect of SSIS
* How to interface SSIS with web services and XML
* Techniques to scale the SSIS and make it more reliable
* How to migrate DTS packages to SSIS
* How to create your own custom tasks and user interfaces
* How to create an application that interfaces with SSIS to manage the environment
* A detailed usable case study for a complete ETL solution

Who this book is for

This book is for developers, DBAs, and users who are looking to program custom code in all of the .NET languages. It is expected that you know the basics of how to query the SQL Server and have some fundamental programming skills.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Foreword.

Introduction.

Who This Book Is For.

How This Book Is Structured.

What You Need to Use This Book.

Conventions.

Source Code.

Errata.

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Chapter 1: Welcome to SQL Server Integration Services.

Chapter 2: The SSIS Tools.

Chapter 3: SSIS Tasks.

Chapter 4: Containers and Data Flow.

Chapter 5: Creating an End-to-End Package.

Chapter 6: Advanced Tasks and Transforms.

Chapter 7: Scripting in SSIS.

Chapter 8: Accessing Heterogeneous Data.

Chapter 9: Reliability and Scalability.

Chapter 10: Understanding the Integration Services Engine.

Chapter 11: Applying the Integration Services Engine.

Chapter 12: DTS 2000 Migration and Metadata Management.

Chapter 13: Error and Event Handling.

Chapter 14: Programming and Extending SSIS.

Chapter 15: Adding a User Interface to Your Component.

Chapter 16: External Management and WMI Task Implementation.

Chapter 17: Using SSIS with External Applications.

Chapter 18: SSIS Software Development Life Cycle.

Chapter 19: Case Study: A Programmatic Example.

Index.