Extending SSIS with .NET Scripting: A Toolkit for SQL Server Integration Services (Paperback)

Extending SSIS with .NET Scripting is a timeless and comprehensive scripting toolkit for SQL Server Integration Services to solve a wide array of everyday problems that SSIS developers encounter. The detailed explanation of the Script Task and Script Component foundations helps you develop your own scripting solutions, but this book also shows a broad arsenal of readymade and well-documented scripting solutions for common problems. All examples are in both C# and VB.NET, and work for all current versions of SSIS.

SSIS is one of the leading ETL, Data Consolidation, and Data Transformation tools in today’s market. SSIS is used by ETL Developers, DBAs and Data Analysts to transform data as required for different ETL processes. There are many built-in components and tasks to help developers to perform actions. For example, there are tasks for sending and receiving files through FTP, sending an email, and for accessing a wide range of database management systems. Yet there are times when developers require a task or component that does not exist and it would make their life much easier if they could create that task or component, and that is what this book it is about. It shows how to write .NET scripts and use the powerful Microsoft .NET library to implement new functionality as needed.

• Provides a timeless scripting toolkit for all current SSIS versions
• Gives a comprehensive explanation of scripting in SSIS
• Offers a wide array of readymade examples for everyday problems

What you’ll learn

• Build solutions around the Script Task and Script Component

• Apply readymade scripting examples from the book to your own projects

• Create own scripting solutions that are written in Microsoft .NET

• Implement custom tasks, enumerators, connection managers, and transformations

• Automate execution of SSIS packages through scripting

• Understand tradeoffs to properly apply different customization options

Who this book is for

Scripting SSIS with .NET is aimed at developers with at least some experience in creating SSIS packages. It is especially targeted at those who have encountered limitations using out-of-the-box tasks and transformations. A secondary audience are those with .NET programming experience who are now heavily involved in database, and especially in ETL work.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Getting Started

Chapter 1: Getting Started with SSIS and Scripting

Chapter 2: Script Tasks vs Script Components

Chapter 3: .NET Fundamentals

Part II: Script Tasks

Chapter 4: Script Task Foundations

Chapter 5: File Properties

Chapter 6: Working Through Internet And Web

Chapter 7: Working with Web Services and XML

Chapter 8:Advanced Solutions with Script Task

Part III: Script Component

Chapter 9: Script Component Foundations

Chapter 10: Script Components as a Source

Chapter 11: Script Components as a Transformation

Chapter 12: Script Components as a Destination

Chapter 13: Regular Expressions

Chapter 14: Reflection

Chapter 15: Web Services

Part IV: Custom Tasks and Components

Chapter 16: Create Custom Tasks

Chapter 17: Create Custom Data Flow Components

Part V: Scripting from .NET Applications

Chapter 18: Package Creation

Chapter 19: Execution and Deployment

Chapter 20: Best Practices