Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS) Taining Course Midlands | Birmingham | Telford | Stafford | Wolverhampton

This two day course will enable technology professionals with little or no ETL experience to be comfortable and productive with the SSIS tools and technologies. In this course you will learn about the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) and working with Control and Data Flows to build workflows to extract, transform, and load data using a variety of data sources, transformations, and destinations. 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-

A Guided Tour of Integration Services
Understanding Integration Services
Exploring and Executing an Integration Services Package in BIDS
Exploring and Executing a Package Outside of BIDS

Control Flow
Overview of Control Flow in Integration Services
Working with Workflow Tasks
Precedence Constraints

Data Flows
The Data Flow Task
Data Viewers
Data Flow Transformations

Variables and Configurations
Understanding Variables
Using Variables in Control Flow
Using Variables in Data Flow
Configurations
Using Variables and Configurations between Packages

Advanced Control Flow
Advanced Control Flow Overview
Using Containers
Transactions Support in Integration Services

Error Handling and Logging
When Things Go Wrong
Checkpoints
Handling Errors and Debugging
Packaging Logging
Event Handling

Advanced Data Flow
Synchronous and Asynchronous Transformations
Using Advanced Transformations
Handling Slowly Changing Dimensions

Package Deployment
Deploying Packages
Create a Package Deployment Utility
Installing a Package
Redeploying Updated Packages

Package Management
Overview of Package Management
Managing Integration Services Packages
Executing Packages
Integration Services Security

Scripting and Custom Components
Extending Integration Services Capabilities through Code
Scripting in Control Flows with the Script Task
Scripting in Data Flows with the Script Component
Custom Integration Services Components

Best Practices
Best Practices for Using Integration Services
Best Practices for Package Development and Design
Data Flow Best Practices
Deployment and Management Best Practices

Going Beyond ETL
Using Integration Services Beyond ETL
Migrating and Maintaining SQL Servers with Integration Services
Working with Analysis Services
Working with Windows Management Instrumentation