ETL for beginners : Learn to integrate data

A common problem that organizations face is how to gathering data from multiple sources, in multiple formats, and move it to one or more data stores. The destination may not be the same type of data store as the source, and often the format is different, or the data needs to be shaped or cleaned before loading it into its final destination.

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) is a data pipeline used to collect data from various sources, transform the data according to business rules, and load it into a destination data store.

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a useful  and powerful Business Intelligence Tool . It is best suited to work with SQL Server Database . It is added to SQL Server Database when you install SQL Server Data Tools  (SSDT)which adds the Business Intelligence Templates to Visual studio that is used to create Integration projects.

SSIS can be used for:

•  Data Integration

•  Data Transformation

•  Providing solutions to complex Business problems

•  Updating data warehouses

•  Cleaning data

•  Mining data

•  Managing SQL Server objects and data

•  Extracting data from a variety of sources

•  Loading data into one or several destinations

What You Will Learn ....

•  How to install SQL Server Database

•  How to download and attach a database to SQL Server

•  How to download and install SQL Server Data Tools

•  How to Create a New Integration Services Project

•  How to add and Configuring a Flat File Connection Manager

•  How to add and Configuring an OLE DB Connection Manager

•  How to add a Data Flow Task to the Package

•  How to add and Configuring the Flat File Source

•  How to add and Configuring the Lookup Transformations

•  How to Create Integration Services Tasks

•  How to Create  New Connection Manager

•  How to Write data to a SQL Server database

•  How to Execute a package from SQL Server Data Tools

•  How to Control Data Flow for Flat Files

•  How to test  Packages