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SQL Server 2008 Integration Services

  • ·Skill level: 100-400
  • ·Run Time: 42+ hours (210 videos)
  • ·CourseId: 158


Our SQL Server 2008 Integration Services is a comprehensive A-Z course that covers exactly what you want in an SSIS course: data flow, data flow, and more data flow. You will learn about transformations, common design patterns used in SSIS, how to manage task execution with precedence constraints and much more. Also covered are best practices, performance tuning, security, package management and many real world situations that almost all SSIS developers must be able to handle. This course features 210 videos in nine chapters and totals more than 42 hours of instructor-led training for SSIS 2008.

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Scott Whigham

Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott's full bio can be found here)

This course is designed to offer coverage for beginners as well as advanced users. No prior knowledge of SSIS is required but prior working experience with SQL Server 200, SQL Server 2005, or SQL Server 2008 will help you get the most out of this course.
While a true beginner could take this course, it is actually recommended that you have at least 30 days experience working with SQL Server (or equivalent work experience with another database system) prior to taking this course.
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  • Will this course help me pass a certification exam? Absolutely. We have a lot of members who have successfully earned Microsoft certifications with the help of our training materials. We do not, however, consider ourselves a "certification training company"; we are a "real world training company" and we think there is an important difference between the two. Read more

Table of Contents

This video training course is separated into chapters. If you'd like to view every video on a single page, you want The Big List.

Chapter 1 - An Introduction to Integration Services 2008

Abstract: Welcome to SQL Server Integration Services 2008 (SSIS).  This chapter will introduce SSIS and give an overview of what this course will cover.  Also included in this chapter is an overview of SSIS and Visual Studio, common terms associated with SSIS, and what is new in SSIS 2008.

Number of Videos: 12
Total Run Time: 2 hours and 46 minutes

Chapter 2 - Getting Started With Your First SSIS Packages

Abstract:

This chapter will cover creating basic packages in SSIS.  Other topics covered in this chapter include importing data with the Wizard, including Microsoft Access Tables and Excel Spreadsheets and Workbooks, annotating, documenting and formatting SSIS packages, working in BIDS, and managing projects with SSIS packages.


Number of Videos: 10
Total Run Time: 1 hour and 57 minutes

Chapter 3 - Package Management: Saving, Encryption, Logging, and Auditing

Abstract:

This chapter will delve a little deeper into SQL Server Integration Services 2008.  Topics covered in this chapter include different options for saving files, the SSIS package store, version control, ProtectionLevel options and settings, logging, auditing, and troubleshooting.


Number of Videos: 12
Total Run Time: 2 hours and 25 minutes

Chapter 4 - Task Tour: A Look at the Common SSIS Tasks

Abstract:

This is a long, but very important chapter that covers common SSIS tasks.  Some tasks covered in this chapter include the For Loop, the Foreach Loop Container, precedence constraints, SSAS, WMI tasks, FTP tasks, sending email with script tasks, data types, and much, much more!


Number of Videos: 76
Total Run Time: 15 hours and 30 minutes

Chapter 5 - Dynamic SSIS: Variables, Expressions, and Package Configurations

Abstract:

This chapter is all about making your SSIS packages more dynamic using variables, expressions, and package configurations.  Some other topics covered in this chapter include an overview of the different types of variables and expressions in SSIS, using the foreach container for several purposes, the Execute SQL task, using environment variables in package constraints, and much more!


Number of Videos: 28
Total Run Time: 5 hours and 43 minutes

Chapter 6 - Real World SSIS Projects and Examples

Abstract:

In this chapter you will take what you have learned so far in the course and learn how to apply it to real world situations you will encounter as an SSIS developer.  In this chapter Scott Whigham will show you how to loop through all files in a folder and load them into SQL Server, export XML data from SQL Server, perform and evaluate the performance of bulk loads, perform incremental updates, use an FTP package, populate an Analysis Services cube, and much more!


Number of Videos: 28
Total Run Time: 5 hours and 39 minutes

Chapter 7 - Scripting and Using .NET Assemblies in SSIS

Abstract:

This chapter is all about scripting, using .NET, and assemblies in SSIS.  This is an especially important chapter for anyone that needs to use .NET in their career as an SSIS developer.  In this chapter Scott will cover what you can do with .NET in SSIS, using the script task with both C# and VB, how to read and write variables, using custom and third party .NET assemblies, creating more presentable excel reports, sending nicer looking emails, importing and exporting MP3 files from a database, and much more!


Number of Videos: 23
Total Run Time: 4 hours and 36 minutes

Chapter 8 - Package Execution, Security, and Scheduling

Abstract:

This chapter is all about package execution, security, and scheduling, which are all very important concepts in SSIS.  In this chapter, Scott will show you how to assign package roles, introduce the different options for executing SSIS packages, and introduce context in SSIS package execution.  Other topics covered in this chapter are security, scheduling SSIS packages as SQL Server jobs, using package configurations and variables to create dynamic scheduled jobs, using proxies and credentials, and much more.


Number of Videos: 12
Total Run Time: 2 hours and 2 minutes

Chapter 9 - Migrating and Upgrading From SQL Server 2000 DTS to SSIS

Abstract:

The final chapter in course 158 is all about migrating and upgrading from DTS in SQL Server 2000 to SSIS 2008.  The biggest challenge you will face in migrating to SSIS 2008 is how to handle packages.  In this chapter Scott will show you how to run the upgrade advisor, introduce the various options for migrating from SQL Server 2000 DTS to SSIS 2008, using the package migration wizard, copying DTS packages to SQL Server 2008, and much more!


Number of Videos: 9
Total Run Time: 1 hour and 28 minutes

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