CHAPTER 1
Metadata Collection
The first Integration Services design pattern we will cover is metadata collection. What do we mean by “metadata collection”? Good question. This chapter could also be called “Using SSIS to Save Time and Become an Awesome DBA.” Many DBAs spend a large portion of time on monitoring activities such as verifying backups, alerting on scheduled job failures, creating schema snapshots (“just in case”), examining space utilization, and logging database growth over time, to name just a very few. Most RDBMS systems provide metadata to help DBAs monitor their systems. If you’ve been a DBA for a few years, you may even have ...
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