Chapter 4. Creating Packages and Transferring Data On-Premise and to the Cloud
SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (SSIS) provides data movement and transformation capabilities for SQL Server. Since SQL Server 2005, SSIS replaced SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Services (DTS). SSIS provides for the following data services:
• Extraction
• Transformation
• Loading
This triumvirate of data services is frequently referred to as ETL. The process encapsulates the extraction of data from a source, the transformation of the data to suit the requirements of the application, and the loading of the data into a destination. The transformations can include normalizing, sanitizing, merging, aggregating, and copying the data. The sources and destinations ...
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