C H A P T E R  11

Events and Error Handling

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not happen.

—Dan Quayle, former vice president of the United States

One of your tasks in building enterprise ETL solutions is making it ready to deal with unforeseen events—the kind that may or may not happen, as Dan Quayle so eloquently points out. Some of this planning comes in the form of infrastructure planning (such as hardware sizing and network and storage capacity planning), but a robust ETL system requires that you also focus attention on building in error handling. Although much of your attention will be focused on issues you can anticipate, unforeseen events can cause the biggest heartburn. This chapter covers SSIS events and event handling, ...

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