CHAPTER 11
Data Warehouse Patterns
SQL Server Integration Services is an excellent general-purpose ETL tool. Its versatility finds it used by DBAs, developers, BI professionals, and even business principals in many different scenarios. Sometimes it’s a dump truck, used for the wholesale movement of enormous amounts of data. Other times it’s more like a scalpel, carving out with precision just the right amount of data.
Though it is a great tool in other areas, SSIS truly excels when used as a data warehouse ETL tool. It would be hard to argue that data warehousing isn’t its primary purpose in life. From native slowly changing dimension (SCD) elements ...
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