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Best Way to Learn SSIS in 28 Days

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SQL Server Integration Services, shortly called as SSIS is the most emerging ETL tool in the current market. Although it is the most powerful tool, you can easily learn SSIS in 28days (Maximum).

SSIS is all about Sources, Transformations, and Destinations. You need Connection Managers to connect with sources and destinations. So, if you know the connection Manager, then you do not have to think about the Sources and Destinations.

Requirement: You cannot learn SSIS by simply reading this blog or watching YouTube videos. You have to practice every scenario by yourself. If you exercise multiple times, you can master this tool. So first, Download and install BIDS, or SQL Data Tools. Next, Download and attach AdventureWorks, and AdventureWorksDW database.

Learn SSIS step by step in 28 Days

Learn everything about Connection Managers in the First two days. Generally, it takes one day to cover this topic. By seeing the links, you might wonder how you gone make it. Don’t worry; most of the steps in those links are the same. I think the maximum 2 to 3 steps may differ.

Learn SSIS Sources and Destinations

The next two days concentrate on learning SSIS Source & Destinations. As I said before, if you know the connection managers, you are good with Destinations and the Sources.

Sources and Destinations

  1. Source Assistant
  2. ADO.NET Source
  3. Excel Source
  4. OLE DB Source
  5. Flat File Source
  6. ADO.NET Destination
  7. OLE DB Destination
  8. FLAT FILE Destination

Learn SSIS Transformations

The next ten days is all about transformations. I don’t think; you need 10 days to complete the transformations. Because, in all the examples, we explained each transformation along with Source and Destination. However, you can skip those steps

  1. Transformations List
  2. Audit
  3. Aggregate Basic Mode
  4. Aggregate Advanced – Configure Multiple Outputs
  5. Cache
  6. Character Map
  7. Conditional Split
  8. Copy Column
  9. Data Conversion
  10. Derived Column
  11. Export Column
  12. Fuzzy Grouping
  13. Fuzzy Lookup
  14. Import Column
  15. Lookup Introduction
    1. OLE DB Connection Manager for Lookup Transformation
    2. Lookup in Full Cache Mode
    3. Lookup Case Sensitivity
  16. Merge
  17. Merge Join
    1. Inner Join
    2. Left Join
    3. Right Join
    4. Full Join
  18. Multicast
  19. OLE DB Command
    1. Delete Operations
    2. Update Operations
  20. Percentage Sampling
  21. Pivot Transformation in SQL Integration Services 2008 R2
  22. Pivot in 2014
  23. Row Count
  24. Row Sampling
  25. Script Component As Source
    1. Script as a Transformation
    2. As a Destination
  26. Slowly Changing Dimension
    1. SCD Type 0
    2. Slowly Changing Dimension Type 1
    3. SCD Type 2
  27. Sort Transformation
  28. Term Lookup
  29. Introducing Term Extraction
    1. Extracting Nouns Only
    2. Extract Noun Phrases Only
    3. Extract Nouns and Noun Phrases
    4. Exclusion Tab
  30. Union All
  31. Unpivot

By the 15th day, you know everything about Connection Managers, Sources, Destinations, and Transformations.

Learn SSIS Containers, and Control Flow Tasks

Learn SSIS containers and the Control Flow tasks from 15th to 20th.

Control Flow Tasks

  1. Bulk Insert
  2. Data Profiling
  3. Execute T-SQL Statement Task
  4. Execute SQL Task
    1. Introduction
    2. Truncate Table  – Result Set None
    3. Single Row Result Set
    4. Full Result Set 
  5. Execute Package Task
    1. Executing Packages in File System
    2. Execute Packages in SQL Server
    3. Executing Packages present in the Same Project
  6. File System Task
    1. Copy Directory
    2. Copy File
    3. Delete Directory Content
    4. Delete Directory
    5. Delete File
    6. Move Directory
    7. Move File
    8. Move Multiple Files
    9. Rename File
    10. Set Attributes
  7. FTP Task
    1. Create Remote Directory
    2. Create Local Directory
    3. Delete Local Files
    4. Delete Remote Directory
    5. Delete Local Directory
    6. Delete Remote Files
    7. Receive Files
    8. Receive Multiple Files
    9. Send Files
    10. Send Multiple Files
  8. Script Task
  9. Transfer SQL Server Objects Task
    1. Transferring SQL Stored Procedures
    2. Transfer SQL Table Structures without Data
    3. Transferring SQL Tables with Data
    4. Transfer User-Defined Function
    5. Transferring Views
  10. Web Service Task
  11. XML Task – Validate XML File
    1. Differentiate between XML Files
    2. Transform XML File Using XSLT

Containers

Use this section to learn SSIS containers

  1. For Loop Container
  2. ForEach Loop Container
    1. ADO.NET Schema Rowset Enumerator
    2. File Enumerator
    3. NodeList Enumerator
    4. SMO Enumerator
    5. Variable Enumerator

Learn SSIS Deployment

Spend your last two days (21, 22) to learn SSIS deployment methods.

  1. Breakpoints
  2. Create SQL Integration Service Catalog
  3. Checkpoints
  4. Deploy Projects using BIDS
  5. Deploy Project using SQL Server
  6. Use SQL Deployment Wizard to Deploy Project
  7. Error Handling
  8. Event Handlers
  9. Logging
  10. Introduction to Package Configurations
    1. Environment Variable
    2. Parent-Child Package
    3. Registry Entry
    4. SQL Server Configuration
    5. XML Configuration File
    6. XML Configuration File Stored in Environment Variable
  11. Package Protection Levels
  12. Transactions

Use those extra six days to practice all the topics that you learned so far.