An authoritative guide to designing effective solutions for data cleansing, ETL, and file management with SQL Server 2008 Integration Services

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the leading tool in the data warehouse industry, used for performing extraction, transformation, and load operations.

After an overview of SSIS architecture, the authors walk you a series of real-world problems and show various techniques for handling them.

• Shows you how to design SSIS solutions for data cleansing, ETL and file management
• Demonstrates how to integrate data from a variety of data sources,
• Shows how to monitor SSIS performance,
• Demonstrates how to avoid common pitfalls involved with SSIS deployment
• Explains how to ensure performance of the deployed solution and effectively handle unexpected system failures and outages
• The companion Web site provides sample code and database scripts that readers can directly implement

This book shows you how to design, build, deploy, and manage solutions to real-world problems that SSIS administrators and developers face day-to-day.

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the most widely adopted Business Intelligence (BI) component of SQL Server and the leading extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool in the data warehouse industry. Written by a team of Microsoft MVPs for SQL Server, this book presents you with an array of common problems that SSIS administrators and developers face on a daily basis, and walks you through the steps necessary to solve these challenges.

• Demonstrates how to solve common pitfalls involved with SSIS deployment

• Shares solutions for challenges you may encounter with package deployment and storage decisions

• Explores file handling and processing methods

• Reviews best practices for data extraction

• Covers the basic concepts and challenges of dimension table ETL and fact table ETL

• Solves problems that may arise with scripting design patterns and SSIS package scaling

• Discusses how to effectively scale and performance-tune SSIS packages

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Jessica M. Moss is a Microsoft MVP in SQL Server and a BI mentor, consultant, and trainer with Solid Quality Mentors.

Brian Knight is a Microsoft MVP For SQL Server and the cofounder of SQLServerCentral.com and JumpstartTV.com.

Jay Hackney is a mentor and consultant for Solid Quality Mentors, who works with SSIS to provide data warehousing and ETL solutions.