SQL Server Integration

Services (SSIS)
Presented by Tarek Ghazali
IT Technical Specialist
Microsoft SQL Server (MVP)
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Web Development (MCP)
LebDev Vice President

© 2007 Tarek Ghazali. All rights reserved.

What Is SSIS?
 Integration Services is a platform for building high performance
data integration and workflow solutions, including extraction,
transformation, and loading (ETL) operations for data
warehousing.

 Transfer and transform data

– SSIS contains a data-flow engine to transfer and transform data to
and from varied data sources

 Tools and wizards

– SSIS contains graphical tools and wizards for creating an
extraction, transform, and loading system

 New version of DTS (Data Transformation Services in SQL

Server 2000)
Typical use of Integration
Services
 Merging Data from Heterogeneous Data Stores

 Populating Data Warehouses and Data Marts

 Cleaning and Standardizing Data

 Building Business Intelligence into a Data Transformation

Process

 Automating Administrative Functions and Data Loading

Data integration without
SSIS
Data Integration with
SSIS
SSIS Architecture
– Integration Services has a completely new
architecture that separates data movement and
transformation from Package control flow and
management

– Packages are the units of work that you execute

– Tasks do the work in packages

– Containers are objects that provide structure to

packages
SSIS
Architecture
-The run-time engine implements
the control flow and package
management infrastructure

-The data flow engine

is a specialized, high performance
engine that is exclusively
dedicated to extracting,
transforming, and loading data.
SSIS Tools
 Wizards
– SQL Server Import and Export Wizard
– Package Migration Wizard
– …
 SSIS Designer
– built into the BI Development Studio and is the main
surface for package development.
 Command-prompt utilities
– Dtexec (run an existing package at the command prompt )
– Dtutil (manage existing packages at the command
prompt)
SSIS Development
Environment
 SSIS Projects:
– Data Sources
– Data Source Views
– SSIS Packages:

 Control flow
– Tasks
– Loops, sequences and events
– Variables and scoping
– Precedence constraints

 Connections Manager
 Data flow
– Source and destination adapters
– Transformations
– Multiple sources with joins and unions
– Multiple destinations with splits and multicast
Using SQL Server
Integration Services

 What Are Data Sources and Data

Source Views?
 What Is a Connection Manager?
 What Is Package Control Flow?
 What Is a Data Flow Task?
 How to Deploy Packages
Data Sources and Data
Source Views
 Data sources
– A data source is a connection reference that you create
outside a package.
– A real-time reference to a data store connection, which
includes all tables and views in the data store.

 Data source views

– Provide a subset of data from a data source
– You can extend a data source view by adding calculated
columns that are populated by custom expressions, adding
new relationships between tables, replacing tables in the
data source view with queries, and adding related tables.
Connection Manager
 A connection manager is a logical
representation of a connection

 Different types of connection

managers enable packages
to connect to a variety
of data sources and
servers
Package Control Flow
 Tasks
– Tasks do the work in packages. The most
important task is the data flow task

 Precedence constraints
– Precedence constraints join tasks together

 Containers
– Containers allow you to group together, or loop
through, the tasks
Deploy Package

 Define package configurations

– Allow you to update the values of properties at run time

 Build the project

– Configure the deployment utility
– Build the project

 Deploy the build

– Copy the build folder to the new system
– Run the manifest
SSIS Execution Methods

 Visual Studio / BIDS

– Debugging environment
 Command Line – (dtexec)
 Execute Package Utility (dtexecui)
 SQL Agent Sub System
 Object Model
SSIS Designer
 Available in Business Intelligence Development
Studio as part of an Integration Services project.

 Perform the following tasks:

– Constructing the control flow in a package.

– Constructing the data flows in a package.

– Adding event handlers to the package and package objects.

– Viewing the package content.

– At run time, viewing the execution progress of the package.

Packages Debugging

 Control flow
– Breakpoints
– Progress reporting
– Debug window

 Data flow
– Data viewer
– Row counts
– Progress reporting
Security
 Packages signed with certificates
 Data encryption before saving the package
 Packages protected using passwords
 Packages controlled with database-level
roles, by default:
– Administrator
– User
– Operator
Compatibility
 Possibility to run DTS and SSIS
packages
– Use ‘Execute DTS 2000 Package Task’ for
running DTS packages from Integration
Services Packages

 Use ‘Package Migration Wizard’ for

migrating packages with SQLServer
2000 DTS format
Migration limitations

 Doesn’t migrate ActiveX Script code with that

accesses the DTS object model via parent property
of the Global Variables
Doesn’t migrate Analysis Services tasks
Doesn’t migrate Complex Data transformation tasks
Doesn’t migrate customs tasks
Doesn’t migrate dynamic properties
Doesn’t migrate parallel data pumps
Doesn’t migrate ActiveX Script attached to package
steps
Doesn’t migrate transaction settings
Break
Demo
Resources & Questions
 Contact me :
– tghazali@sqlmvp.com
– www.sqlmvp.com
 Microsoft Resources:
– msdn.microsoft.com/sqlserver/
– www.microsoft.com/sql/community
 Download Presentations:
– www.lebdev.net
– www.devconnect.net
 Site dedicated to Integration Services:
– www.SQLIS.com