Accelerated SQL Server 2012 Integration Services

Day 1

Section A: SSIS Overview and Core Features

Module 01 - SSIS Overview and Core Features

• How SSIS fits into the corporate data network and infrastructure
• Introduction to data integration, BI, and dimensional modeling
• SSIS features overview
• SQL Server 2012 tools

Lab 01: SSIS Development Environment Introduction

Module 02 - SSIS Control Flow Objects and Features

• Control flow and data flow principles
• Control flow features
• Containers
• SSIS expression language
• Tasks and constraints

Lab 02: Workflow Management in the Control Flow

Module 03 - Applying Data Flow Transformations and Adapters

• Data flow introduction and design environment
• Connecting the data flow to sources and destinations
• Transformations and paths

Lab 03: Working with Data in the Data Flow

Day 2

Section B: Applying SSIS to Common Operations

Module 04 - Working With and Importing Files

• File-handling requirements and management
• Working with binary data
• Excel and 64-bit considerations
• Third-party custom components

Lab 04: Importing and Processing FTP Sourced Files

Module 05 - Data Source Extraction and Destination Optimization

• Extraction optimization
• Incremental extraction and Change Data Capture
• Data loading optimization

Lab 05: Incremental Extraction and ODBC Sources

Module 06 - Data Quality and Cleansing

• Data profiling and cleansing basics
• Fuzzy operations
• Fuzzy Lookup
• Fuzzy Grouping
• Text mining
• Script component
• Data Quality Services

Lab 06: Comparing the Fuzzy Lookup and DQS Cleansing Transformations

Section C: Applying SSIS in BI and Data Warehouse Solutions

Module 07 - Dimension ETL with SSIS

• Fact table ETL theory
• Fact loading concepts, columns, and mappings
• Workflow, precedence, and staging
• Identifying dimension surrogate keys
• Data preparation for fact tables
• Advanced concepts

Lab 07: Dimension Table ETL

Day 3

Module 08 - Fact ETL with SSIS

• Fact types and theory, Aspects of the fact table processing, Dimension lookups with the Lookup transformation, Missing Dimension Members, Measures and Calculations, Handling fact inserts and updates, Changing data grain, Processing Analysis Services Measure Group Partitions

Lab 08: Fact Table ETL

Module 09 - Processing Tabular and Multidimensional SSAS Objects in SSIS

• SSAS tabular and multidimensional
• Processing methods in SSIS
• Dynamic processing and partition creation

Lab 09: Analysis Services Processing

Section D: Project Deployment Model

Module 10 - Project Deployment Model: Configuration, Deployment & Security

• Project Deployment Model
• SSIS catalog features
• Project and package connections
• Project and package parameters
• Project Deployment Wizard
• SSIS environments
• Security and encryption

Lab 10: SSIS Catalog Configurations and Project Deployment

Module 11 - Project Deployment Model: Execution and Reporting

• Project deployment model utilities
• Package execution with T-SQL and DTExec
• Server reporting and logging

Lab 11: Executing Packages in the SSIS Catalog

Day 4

Section E: Package Deployment Model

Module 12 - Package Deployment Model: Configuration and Deployment

• Package deployment model
• Package configurations
• Deploying packages

Lab 12: Working with Package Configurations

Module 13 - Package Deployment Model: Execution, Security & Logging

• Package deployment model utilities
• Package execution
• Package security and encryption
• Package logging

Lab 13: Package Logging and Execution

Section F: SSIS Solution and Performance Considerations

Module 14 - Transactions and Restartability

• SSIS transactions
• SQL Server database snapshots
• Restartability with checkpoints
• Debugging with breakpoints

Lab 14: Working with Transactions and Checkpoints

Module 15 - Optimization and Scalability

• SQL code versus SSIS pipeline
• Data flow engine internals
• General optimization techniques
• Performance root-cause analysis

Lab 15: Identifying and Resolving SSIS Performance Issues

Module 16 - Solution Approach and Team Development

• Modular and parent package design
• Team development considerations

Lab 16: Creating a Parent Package