Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) Taining Course Midlands | Birmingham | Telford | Stafford | Wolverhampton

This two day course will familiarise participants with SQL Server Integration Services 2005 (SSIS) tools and technologies. In this course you will learn about the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and building Database Maintenance Plans. You will be introduced to the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) and working with Control Flow and Data Flow. You will also become familiar with SSIS package management and package deployment along with learning to write solid code using debugging, error handling and logging techniques.

Topics include-

Introduction to SQL Server Integration Services
Product History
SSIS Package Architecture Overview
Development and Management Tools
Deploying and Managing SSIS Packages
Source Control for SSIS Packages

SSIS for DBAs: Using SQL Server Management Studio
The Import and Export Wizard
Importing and Exporting Data
Working with Packages
Database Maintenance Plans
Creating Database Maintenance Plans using SSMS
Scheduling and Executing Plans
Examining Database Maintenance Plan Packages
Changes in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2

Business Intelligence Development Studio
Launching BIDS
Project templates
The package designer
The Toolbox
Solution Explorer
The Properties window
The Variables window
The SSIS menu

Introduction to Control Flow
Control Flow Overview
Precedence Constraints
The Execute SQL Task
The Bulk Insert Task
The File System Task
The FTP Task
The Send Mail Task

Advanced Control Flow
Containers – grouping and looping
The Web Service Task
The WMI tasks
The Analysis Services tasks
The Execute Process Task
The Execute Package Task

Introduction to Data Flow
Data Flow Overview
Data Sources
Data Destinations
Data Transformations
The Copy Column Transformation
The Derived Column Transformation
The Data Conversion Transformation
The Conditional Split Transformation
The Aggregate Transformation
The Sort Transformation
Data Viewers

Variables and Configurations
Variables Overview
Variable scope
SSIS system variables
Using variables in control flow
Using variables in data flow
Using variables to pass information between packages
Property expressions
Configuration Overview
Configuration options
Configuration discipline

Debugging , Error Handling and Logging
SSIS debugging overview
Breakpoints in SSIS
SSIS debugging windows
Control Flow: The OnError event handler
Data Flow: Error data flow
Configuring Package Logging
Built-in log providers

Advanced Data Flow
Revisiting data sources and destinations
The Lookup Transformation
Getting Fuzzy: The Fuzzy Lookup and Fuzzy Grouping Transformations
The Multicast Transformation
The Merge and Merge Join Transformations
The Data Mining Query Transformation
The Data Mining Model Training Destination
The Slowly Changing Dimension Transformation

Extending SSIS through Custom Code
Introduction to SSIS scripting
The SSIS script editor
The SSIS object model
Script in Control flow: The Script Task
Script in Data flow: The Script Component
Introduction to SSIS component development

SSIS Package Deployment
Configurations and deployment
The deployment utility
Deployment options
Deployment security
Executing packages – DTExec and DTExecUI

SSIS Package Management
The SSIS Service
Managing packages with DTUtil
Managing packages with SQL Server Management Studio
Scheduling packages with SQL Server Agent