CHAPTER 22 Using SQL Server Integration Services to Load Data

Data warehousing applications require complex procedures for data transformation and analysis. The typical life cycle of data in such applications comprises four stages:

1. An online transaction processing (OLTP) system collects the data.

2. The data is loaded from the OLTP system into the data warehouse through the process of extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL).

3. The data is loaded from the data warehouse into ...

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