Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services: An Expert Cookbook

by Reza Rad, Pedro Perfeito

Overview

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a leading tool in the data warehouse industry - used for performing extraction, transformation, and load operations. This book is aligned with the most common methodology associated with SSIS known as Extract Transform and Load (ETL); ETL is responsible for the extraction of data from several sources, their cleansing, customization, and loading into a central repository normally called Data Warehouse or Data Mart.Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services: An Expert Cookbook covers all the aspects of SSIS 2012 with lots of real-world scenarios to help readers understand usages of SSIS in every environment. Written by two SQL Server MVPs who have in-depth knowledge of SSIS having worked with it for many years.This book starts by creating simple data transfer packages with wizards and illustrates how to create more complex data transfer packages, troubleshoot packages, make robust SSIS packages, and how to boost the performance of data consolidation with SSIS. It then covers data flow transformations and advanced transformations for data cleansing, fuzzy and term extraction in detail. The book then dives deep into making a dynamic package with the help of expressions and variables, and performance tuning and consideration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849685252
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	05/24/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	564
File size:	44 MB
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About the Author

Reza Rad is a Senior Microsoft BI Consultant, Author, and Trainer. He has a BsC in Computer engineering; he has more than 10 years experience in programming and development mostly on Microsoft technologies. He got his Microsoft MVP in SQL Server in 2011 for his dedication in SSIS. He is known as Reza Rad in online communities and forums, his official Name is Abolfazl Radgoudarzi. Reza has worked on Microsoft BI suite for more than six years; he is a SSIS/MSBI/.NET Trainer and also a software and BI Consultant at some companies and private institutes. He was co-author of the SQL Server MVP Deep Dive Volume 2. His articles on different aspects of technologies especially on SSIS can be found on his blog: http://www.rad.pasfu.com, his direct email address is [e-mail]

Pedro was born in 1977 in Portugal and currently works as BI Senior Consultant and Developer at Novabase. He's also an invited teacher in master and postgraduate BI degrees, by IUL-ISCTE (Lisbon) and by Universidade Portucalense (UPT-Porto) respectively. He received in 2010 and 2011 the Microsoft award “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) for all his dedication and contribution helping theoretical and practical issues in the various BI communities and he's also co-author of the SQL MVP Deep Dives book – 2Edition. He has several Microsoft certifications including MCP, MCSD, MCTS-Web, MCTS-BI and MCITP-BI and also worldwide certifications in the area of BI provided by TDWI/CBIP (The Data Warehouse Institute – http://www.tdwi.org). He's currently preparing his PhD degree on BI. For further details you can also visit his personal blog at http://www.pedrocgd.blogspot.com or even contact him directly at [e-mail]