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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

The SQL Server Integration Services (shortly called as SSIS) is a powerful ETL tool. This SSIS ETL tool is used for building enterprise-level data transformation, and data integration solutions. Remember, SSIS is the second largest tool to perform Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) operations.

The Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services or SSIS included many built-in tasks and transformations to solve the complex business problems by building high-performance data integration packages. You can use SQL SSIS for updating data warehouses, data mining, downloading or copying files, extract and transfer data from XML to SQL etc.

TIP: You don’t have to be Pro, but try to Learn basic concepts of SQL Server (at least SELECT Statements) before this SSIS tutorial.

NOTE: Before you start practising the examples in SSIS tutorial, I suggest you download Adventure Works, and Adventure works DW databases. Because these are the two databases that we use in this entire SSIS tutorial. Please refer Install AdventureWorks article to understand the steps involved in downloading, and installing the databases.

SSIS Introduction

First, I suggest you install the SQL Data Tools, or Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) to practice these SSIS tutorial

  1. What is SQL Server Integration Services
  2. Install SQL Server Data Tools or BIDS
  3. How to Learn SQL Integration Services in 28 Days
  4. Create a New Integration Services Project
  5. Create a New Package

SSIS Connection Manager

This section of SSIS tutorial covers establishing connections between this SQL SSIS and different data sources.

  1. Connection Managers Introduction
  2. OLE DB Connection Manager
  3. ADO Connection Manager
  4. ADO.NET Connection Manager
  5. Cache Connection Manager
  6. EXCEL Connection Manager
  7. File Connection Manager
  8. FTP Connection Manager
  9. SMO Connection Manager

SSIS Sources

The following are the list of common sources used in the SSIS package development.

  1. Source Assistant
  2. ADO.NET Source
  3. Excel Source
  4. OLE DB Source
  5. Flat File Source

SSIS Destinations

  1. ADO.NET Destination
  2. OLE DB Destination
  3. FLAT FILE Destination

SSIS Containers

This section of SSIS tutorial covers the containers available in this ETL tool.

  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

SSIS Transformations

The following SSIS tutorial shows the list of available transformations. Please click on the link to see the definition, and a practical example of each SSIS transformation.

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

SSIS Control Flow Tasks

This section of SSIS tutorial explain everything about the control flow tasks.

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

SSIS Deployment

This SSIS tutorial section covers the most important topics, which are useful for the production environment.

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

SQL SSIS Import and Export Data Wizard

You can perform the following import and export operations in SSIS using a Wizard. This might act as a stating point of SSIS Tutorial or package development.

  1. Export Data From SQL to Flat File using Import & Export Data Wizard
  2. Import Data from Flat File to SQL using Import Export Data Wizard
  3. Export Data in SQL to Excel using Wizard
  4. Import Data from Excel to SQL using Import Export Wizard

SSIS Interview Questions

The following are the list of few SSIS interview questions that you might face apart from regular SQL SSIS Transformation questions

  1. SSIS Incremental Load
    1. Incremental Load
    2. Better Approach – Incremental Load
  2. Export data From SQL Server to Excel File
  3. Export data From SQL Server to Flat File
  4. Query builder
  5. How to remove Double Quotes in Excel Sheet
  6. How to remove Double Quotes in Flat or CSV File
  7. Text Qualifier Property
  8. Difference between Project Level and Package Level Connection managers
  9. Project Parameters Vs Package Parameters
  10. Send Emails using Script Task

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