At Code Mastery Boston James Phillips of Magenic talks aout planning, designing and loading data with SSIS 2012

1. Loading a Data Warehouse using
SSIS 2012
Presented By:
James Phillips
May 2, 2012

2. Planning Planning Planning
 How much data is going to be processed?
 How often will the data be processed?
 What is the SLA (Service Level Agreement) of your Data Warehouse
 You can never have too much Memory!!!!!
 Create or Choose a Framework and stick with it.
 http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard

3. Designing your ETL
 Don’t forget the T in ETL
 Keep individual SSIS Packages streamlined.
 Don’t rush!! Don’t take shortcuts!!
 Track your dependencies and document.
 Make it flexible
 You can never have enough logging

4. Demo
SSIS Framework

5. What not to do!
 Overuse Sorts
 Excessive lookups
 Not using Dataflow
 Using multiple frameworks or none at all
 Skip planning phases
 Try to tackle everything at once
 Make decisions for the business

6. Use the tool.
 Dataflow
 Conditional Splits
 Script Tasks
 Script Components
 Configuration files
 Pivot
 Multicast

7. Demo
Various components and how to use
them

8. What’s new in 2012
 Data Quality Services component
 SSIS Parameters
 New Deployment model
 New GUI
 Shared Data Connections
 Flat File Connection Manager supports ragged rows

9. Demo
New Features

10. Questions?