DTS Conversion to SSIS Conversion Best Practices Mike Davis

About the Speaker BI consultant Specializing in SSIS, SSRS.Net Developer Four years experience with SQL Server Currently developing new products with Pragmatic Works for SQL Server Blog on Pragmaticworks.com

Why choose SSIS? 64bit support Parallel in-memory multi buffer architecture helps to load data several times faster than DTS. Logging, Configuration, CheckPoint etc. Source Safe Integration because everything is XML Many new Tasks (e.g. Script Task, For Each Loop, XML Task etc.) that replace need for ActiveX Less Maintenance… Faster Development… Faster Performance

DTS vs. SSIS Speed Test DTS SSIS SQL Server Destination SSIS OLE DB Destination Average Runtime (seconds) 33.2 s11.3 s12.3 s On 32 bit dual core machine Pulling 1 million rows out and writing to SQL table with no transformation SSIS 65% + faster than DTS Adding transformation would add more SSIS advantage

Project Options Run DTS in 2005 or 2008 ▫Missing the package logs ▫Runs under 32 bit Upgrade using MS Wizard ▫Not compatible with most package Upgrade using DTSxchange ▫Minutes per package Starting from scratch ▫About 3-5 hrs per package

Demo Running DTS package in SQL Server 2005/2008

Microsoft Package Upgrade Wizard Built into SQL Server 2005/2008 ▫Does not handle ODBC ▫Only handles a few types of text file use cases ▫No Dynamic Properties Task ▫No UDL or legacy database support in data pump ▫Packages only have about a 20% of working

What is Involved in Upgrading? Scope and Number of Packages How long will it take you to migrate each type of task How to migrate, Manual or Tool Upgrade the ActiveX Script Task logic, Manual Test, test and test

Microsoft Package Upgrade Wizard Demo

Feature Highlights Profiles DTS packages to help with a conversion project plan Rapidly converts DTS Packages to SSIS (2005 or 2008) and applies SSIS best practices Converts tasks that are not handled by the existing SQL Server conversion wizard Handles Flat files Properly Shows Warnings not just success

DTS xChange Profiler

DTS xChange Migration

A Few of the Conversion Rules Support for migration of children packages Creates a robust Auditing framework Consolidate Connections in Connection Manager Create configuration files automatically Create package transactions Checkpoints NULL handling

Other Advantages Handles text files properly Handles ODBC for a source Migrates Dynamic Properties Tasks Advanced profiler to estimate your project Full validation of the output of the migration 92% package success rate in customer migrations over thousands of packages

Built-in Reports

ActiveX Script Migration All tools mentioned migrate DTS ActiveX to ActiveX in SSIS ActiveX migrates to SSIS but you would not want to keep it there and it may not run Need for ActiveX Script Task has been replaced with built-in, easy to maintain SSIS tasks ▫File System Object = File System Task ▫Mail objects = Send Mail Task (now has SMTP) ▫ADO objects = Execute SQL Task

Summary MS Wizard Profiler DTSxchange ActiveX Script conversions For Questions

Next Steps Profiler is free at DTSxchange.com Download a free trial of DTSxchange to convert 3 packages Watch the demonstrations on DTSxchange.com

Giveaway A copy of Professional SSIS will be given away.

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