Meeting Date: September 27, 2007 Topic: Converting DTS to SSIS by Brian Knight

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Today’s Speaker Brian Knight – Author & SQL Server MVP: Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Expert SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS Programming and Extending SQL Server 2005 Integration Services – Founder SQLServerCentral.com – Founder Pragmatic Works – Founder of JumpStartTV.com

Congratulations! Welcome Camille Charene Knight. Born ten days ago!

Migrating From DTS to SSIS Brian Knight, Pragmatic Works

 Brian Knight - – Founder of SQLServerCentral.com, JumpstartTV.com – SQL Server MVP – Owner of Pragmatic Works – Author of 7 SQL Server books Quick Intro

Upgrading in place The Good, the bad and the ugly of DTS migrations Demo of a complete migration – DTS Package Migration Wizard Other Options Agenda

DTS runtime ships with SQL Server 2005 Management Studio to view/execute packages – Can’t create packages though Designer does not ship out of the box – Feature pack Upgrading In Place

Upgrade Adviser Execute SQL tasks Execute Process tasks Execute Package tasks (with a caveat) Bulk Insert Task The Good

ActiveX Scripts – 10% likeliness of working Data Flow Tasks – 40% likeliness of working Data Driven Query Tasks – 0% likeliness of working The Bad

SSAS tasks - 0% likeliness of working Dynamic Properties tasks - 0% likeliness of working Flat File Connections – Will have to open the Connection Manager in SSIS Overall percentage of success apx. 40% The Ugly

If conversion works, you probably miss out on the power of SSIS – Configurations – Logging – Checkpoints – Transactions – Much, much more. Are you Missing Out?

SSIS foundation Demo of a migration Demo

Re-architect The Package From Scratch New Migration Tool Outsourcing Alternatives

Employ a Consulting Company – Formalized training around SSIS – Mentoring / Oversight – Review Offshore/Onshore – Research – Guarantees and accountability – Testing and approval Outsourcing

Allows you to migrate multiple servers and directories at once Allows you to create sets of rules for the migration Apply rules to the migration to use the new SSIS features and apply best practices Releases in October More info available on PragmaticWorks.com – DTS xChange

Sample rules (more than 10 advanced rules): – Handle Dynamic Properties Task – Apply naming convention – Creating logging provider – Create event handlers for logging into enterprise DB – Make connections dynamic via expressions – Consolidate connections – Complex data flow – Add checkpoints – Add Transactions Does not alleviate a human or testing! xChange Migration Rules

Existing wizard approximately 40% effective This is not as daunting as it looks – Education of your team – Migration through a tool like DTS xChange – Outsourcing Summary

Open Q&A – – Questions

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