1. Defensive ETL Tim Mitchell Artis Consulting The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

2. Session Objectives What is Defensive ETL? Review threats and challenges Discuss countermeasures in SSIS The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

3. Tim Mitchell Business Intelligence Consultant – Artis Consulting, Dallas TX Contributing author, MVP Deep Dives 2 Coauthor, SSIS Design Patterns SQL Server MVP TimMitchell.net | Twitter.com/Tim_Mitchell The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

4. Housekeeping Questions Surveys The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

5. Common Data Challenges Accidental – Data corruption – Data loss – Transactional inconsistency Malicious – Data theft – SQL injection The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

6. Common Data Challenges System – Hardware/software failures unrelated to the operation of the ETL – Unexpected downtime – Resource contention The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

7. ETL Challenges Data sources/destination challenges – Inconsistent types – Inconsistent lengths – Unreliable connections – Just plain bad data The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

8. ETL Challenges Transformation challenges – Business logic errors – Generated duplicates – “Lost” data – Time allotment overrun The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

9. What Is Defensive ETL? Two universal truths: I’m doing it right. Everybody else is crazy. The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

10. What Is Defensive ETL? Assumptions of a Defensive ETL professional: Any input/output over which I do not have complete control cannot be trusted. Any process that relies on either hardware or software cannot be trusted. Murphy’s Law is inescapable The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

11. Defensive ETL in SSIS Multifaceted approach: Package Sources/destinations Transformations Error/event handling Restartability Validation The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

12. Defensive ETL in SSIS Package-Level Defenses The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

13. Defensive ETL in SSIS Transactions Package, container, and/or task The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

14. Defensive ETL in SSIS Checkpoints Task or container level restart Avoid use with transactions The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

15. Defensive ETL in SSIS Logging The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

16. Defensive ETL in SSIS ETL Framework Structured approach Shared logging and error handling Restartability The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals ETL Controller

17. Defensive ETL in SSIS Event Handling The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

18. Defensive ETL in SSIS Control Flow Defenses The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

19. Defensive ETL in SSIS Precedence Constraints Alternate paths The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

20. Defensive ETL in SSIS Script Task Wait/pause Retry The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

21. Defensive ETL in SSIS Data Flow Defenses The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

22. Defensive ETL in SSIS Connections Metadata is configurable for some connection types The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

23. Defensive ETL in SSIS Data Sources Error or Truncation Column by column The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

24. Defensive ETL in SSIS Inline Cleansing Conditional Split Derived Column transform The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

25. Defensive strategies Incoming data – Inline cleansing – Post-ETL cleansing – Third-party cleansing DQS in SQL Server Denali The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

26. Defensive strategies Incoming data – Data type/length compensation – Loops/retry The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

27. Defensive strategies Transformations – Error/lookup outputs – Branching – Rowcount validations The World’s Largest Community of SQL Server Professionals

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