What’s New in SSIS with SQL 2008 Bret Stateham Training Manager Vortex Learning Solutions blogs.netconnex.com

Agenda What’s New Overview Samples on CodePlex Scripting Changes Lookup Transformation Data Profiling

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What’s New Overview CategoryEnhancement Installation Features Need to get Samples from CodePlex DTS Support Issues Component Enhancements Lookup Transformation ADO.NET Sources & Destinations Data Profiling Task Connections Project Wizard New Scripting Environment & Features Package Upgrade Data Management Enhancements Import/Export Wiz Data Type Handling Support for new Date / Time Data Types SQL Language Enhancements Change Data Capture Performance and Troubleshooting Debug Dump Files (.tmp)

Samples on CodePlex Sample Databases and Code Samples – No Longer installed with SQL Server – Go to CodePlex to download them:

Scripting Changes Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) Now supports C# as well as VB.Net Easier to reference custom assemblies – No longer have to store the assemblies in the Framework or SDK folders

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Lookup Transformations New “Cache Transform” and “Cache Connection Manager” components Cache Transform uses a Cache Connection Manager to populate a cache Lookup Transform use a Cache Connection Manager to read from an existing cache Caches can be persisted to a file for re-use across packages and time

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Data Profiling Investigates data characteristics Data Profile Viewer to view output Can use Script Tasks to parse XML

Profile Types ProfileUse Candidate KeyVerify Uniqueness of Key Values, or Identify Keys Column Null RatioFind percentage of NULL in a column across rows Column StatisticsMin, Max, Median, Deviation Column Value DistributionDistinct values and counts Column Length DistributionLengths of the column values with row counts Column PatternRegular Expressions and counts Functional DependencyVerify parent child relationships, multiple parents Value InclusionVerify parent child relationships, locate orphans

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Transact SQL Enhancements

Summary What’s New Overview Samples on CodePlex Scripting Changes Lookup Transformation Data Profiling

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