Loading a Data Warehouse using SSIS 2012

Presented By:

James Phillips

May 2, 2012

Planning Planning Planning How much data is going to be processed?

How often will the data be processed?

What is the SLA (Service Level Agreement) of your Data Warehouse

You can never have too much Memory!!!!!

Create or Choose a Framework and stick with it.

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard

Designing your ETL Don’t forget the T in ETL

Keep individual SSIS Packages streamlined.

Don’t rush!! Don’t take shortcuts!!

Track your dependencies and document.

Make it flexible

You can never have enough logging

Demo

SSIS Framework

What not to do! Overuse Sorts

Excessive lookups

Not using Dataflow

Using multiple frameworks or none at all

Skip planning phases

Try to tackle everything at once

Make decisions for the business

Use the tool. Dataflow

Conditional Splits

Script Tasks

Script Components

Configuration files

Pivot

Multicast

Demo

Various components and how to use them

What’s new in 2012 Data Quality Services component

SSIS Parameters

New Deployment model

New GUI

Shared Data Connections

Flat File Connection Manager supports ragged rows

Demo

New Features

Questions?