5.1. Basic Transformation Tutorial

As you can imagine, the primary reason that people use SSIS is to read the data from a source and write it to a destination after it's massaged. This tutorial will walk you through a common scenario where you want to copy data from a flat file source to a SQL Server table without massaging the data. Don't worry; things will get much more complex later in your next package.

Start the tutorial by going online to the Wiley Web site and downloading the sample extract that contains zip code information about cities in Florida. The zip code extract was retrieved from public record data from the 1990 census and has been filtered down to just Florida cities to save on your download time. You'll use this in the next tutorial as well, so it's very important not to skip this tutorial. You can download the sample extract file called ZipCode.txt from this book's Web page at www.wrox.com. Place the file into a directory called C:\SSISDemos.

Open Business Information Development Studio (BIDS) and select File New Project. Then select Integration Services Project as your project type. Type ProSSISChapter5 as the project name, and accept the rest of the defaults (as shown in Figure 5-1).

Figure 5.1. Figure 5-1

The project will be created, and you'll see a default ...

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