What is the SSIS package and what does it do?

Question

Can someone tell me what the SSIS package is all about?

I am totally new to data-warehousing and I am going crazy with the terms SSIS, DTL, ETL and so on. I am looki

Answer 1

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a platform for building high-performance data integration solutions, including extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) packages for data warehousing. SSIS includes graphical tools and wizards for building and debugging packages; tasks for performing workflow functions such as FTP operations, executing SQL statements, and sending e-mail messages; data sources and destinations for extracting and loading data; transformations for cleaning, aggregating, merging, and copying data; a management database, SSISDB, for administering package execution and storage; and application programming interfaces (APIs) for programming the Integration Services object model.

As per Microsoft, the main uses of SSIS Package are:

• Merging Data from Heterogeneous Data Stores Populating Data

• Warehouses and Data Marts Cleaning and Standardizing Data Building

• Business Intelligence into a Data Transformation Process Automating

• Administrative Functions and Data Loading

For developers:

SSIS Package can be integrated with VS development environment for building Business Intelligence solutions. Business Intelligence Development Studio is the Visual Studio environment with enhancements that are specific to business intelligence solutions. It work with 32-bit development environment only.

Download SSDT tools for Visual Studio:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36843

Creating SSIS ETL Package - Basics :

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/ssis-how-to-create-an-etl-package?view=sql-server-2017

Sample project of SSIS features in 6 lessons:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/ssis-how-to-create-an-etl-package?view=sql-server-2017