The document discusses SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) tasks. It describes different types of tasks in SSIS including data flow tasks, data preparation tasks, workflow tasks, SQL server tasks, scripting tasks, analysis services tasks, and maintenance tasks. It provides examples of specific tasks like the file system task, FTP task, XML task, data profiling task, execute package task, WMI data reader task, and execute process task. The document concludes with a demo of control flow tasks.

1. Presented by:
Pramod Singla
Pramod_singla@yahoo.co.in
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2.  Recap and Q&A
 Control Flow Tasks
 Data Preparation Tasks
◦ Demo: File System Task
◦ Demo: FTP Task
◦ Demo: XML Task
◦ Demo: Data Profiling Task
◦ Demo: Data Profiling Viewer
 Process Communication Tasks
◦ Demo: Execute Package Task
◦ Demo: WMI Data Reader Task
◦ Demo: Execute Process Task
 Summary

3.  SSIS Architecture
 Package designer
 Import and export wizard
 Connection manager
 Execute SQL task
 Precedence constraints
 Containers

4.  Elements that define units of work
 Types of Tasks
 Data Flow Task
◦ Task that runs data flows to extract data, apply column level transformations, and load data.
 Data Preparation Tasks
◦ These tasks do the following processes: copy files and directories; download files and data; run
Web methods; apply operations to XML documents; and profile data for cleansing.
 Workflow Tasks
◦ The tasks that communicate with other processes to run packages, run programs or batch files,
send and receive messages between packages, send e-mail messages, read Windows
Management Instrumentation (WMI) data, and watch for WMI events.
 SQL Server Tasks
◦ The tasks that access, copy, insert, delete, and modify SQL Server objects and data.

5.  Scripting Tasks
◦ The tasks that extend package functionality by using scripts.
 Analysis Services Tasks
◦ The tasks that create, modify, delete, and process Analysis Services objects.
 Maintenance Tasks
◦ The tasks that perform administrative functions such as backing up and shrinking SQL Server
databases, rebuilding and reorganizing indexes, and running SQL Server Agent jobs.

6.  It performs operations on files and directories in the file system. File System
Operation available in this task are:

7.  The FTP task downloads and uploads data files and manages directories on File
servers. Operation available with FTP task are:

8.  The XML task is used to work with XML data. Operation available with XML task
are:

9.  The XML task is used to work with XML data. Operation available with XML
task are:

10.  Computes various profiles that help identify problems in the data
 The Data Profiling task works only with data that is stored in SQL Server
 A profile is not valid unless not empty tables and columns selected, and the
columns contain data types that are valid for the profile.
DATA Profiler Viewer
 Profile task compute data profiles and save them in a file and Data Profile
Viewer review the profile output

11.  Lets packages run other package
 Breaking down complex package workflow.
 Reusing parts of packages.
 Grouping work units.
 Controlling package security

12.  The WMI Data Reader task runs queries using the Windows
Management Instrumentation (WMI) Query Language and
returns information about a computer system.
 WMI Query E.g. Gives info about quick fixes applied on
server
◦ Select * FROM Win32_QuickFixEngineering

13.  Runs an application or batch file

14. DEMO
3_1_Demo_ControlFlowTasks.dtsx

16.  Contact me :
◦ Pramod_singla@yahoo.co.in
◦ http://pramodsingla.wordpress.com/
 Microsoft Resources:
◦ msdn.microsoft.com/sqlserver/
◦ www.microsoft.com/sql/community
◦ http://pluralsight.com/training/courses/TableOfContents?
courseName=ssis-basic&highlight=stacia-misner_08-ssis-basic-
debugging!stacia-misner_06-ssis-basic-expressions*2,3#08-ssis-
basic-debugging