1. virtual techdays INDIA │ 28-30 September 2011 Integrating SSIS with external applications Nauzad Kapadia nauzadk@quartzsystems.comnauzadk@quartzsystems.com | @nauzadk

2. Agenda Interacting with external applications from SSIS Packages Interacting with packages from external applications Typical database maintenance activities

3. PART I – INTERACTING WITH EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS FROM SSIS PACKAGES

4. Invoking external APIs / Applications Web Services Message Queues Execute Process Task

5. DEMO Invoking Web Services using SSIS

6. DEMO Using WebRequest class to invoke web services of make HTTP requests

7. DEMO Interacting with MSMQ

8. Monitoring other processes Interact with the Operating System and other system components thru WMI Tasks Use WMI Data Reader to – Identify the amount of free/used space on a hard drive on a local or a remote computer system. – Generate a list of all the applications and the application versions installed on a local or remote computer. – Generate a list of all windows services running on a local or remote computer. Use WMI Event Watcher to – Keep polling a directory for the availability of files which are being written. – Wait for the CPU utilization to come down below a certain threshold to trigger events. – Wait for the server memory to reach a threshold before executing a SSIS package or any process which consumes a lot of server memory. – Wait until a defined windows service to start before proceeding with a specific action.

9. DEMO Using WMIDataReader and WMIEventWatcher

10. Passing data to/from external applications Use DataReader Source / Destination. Use SSIS to harness its ETL strengths in conjunction with other applications. Extract or Import binary data using Import / Export column transformations.

11. DEMO Using DataReaderDestination

12. DEMO Using ExportColumn Transformation

13. PART II – INTERACTING WITH PACKAGES FROM EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS

14. Executing Packages On local machine – Be aware of licensing violations – Ensure all dependencies are also available on local machine On a remote machine – Use SQL Agent – Use Web services Schedule package execution – Create SQL Agent jobs – Create proxy accounts From SSRS Reports – Enable the SSIS Data Extension in RSReportServer.config and RSReportDesigner.config

15. DEMO Executing Packages on local and remote machines using SQL Agent job

16. DEMO Invoking Packages from SSRS Reports

17. PART III – DATABASE MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES

18. Typical Tasks Process Dimensions/Cubes Train Data Mining Models Create new partitions Rebuild Indexes Update Statistics

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