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Introduction A few months back I received an email from a nice lady who was beginning to work with SSIS. She was trying to use SSIS to automate metadata collection in her enterprise and she had made a good start in the package she attached to the email. She had a few questions so I opened the package and began poking around some to answer ...

Introduction  On Thursday, 24 Jan 2008, I presented New Features In SSIS 2008 to the Richmond SQL Server Users Group. Most of the presentation was dedicated to demonstrating Change Data Capture (CDC) interacting with SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. I started seriously working on this demo the first week of January, thinking ...

Introduction This post is part of a series of posts on ETL Instrumentation. In Part 1 we built a database to hold collected SSIS run time metrics and an SSIS package to deomnstrate how and why we would load metrics into the database. In Part 2 we expanded on our database and the SSIS package to annotate version metadata, manage error metrics ...

Introduction This post is part of a series of posts on ETL Instrumentation. In Part 1 we built a database to hold collected SSIS run time metrics and an SSIS package to deomnstrate how and why we would load metrics into the database. In Part 2 we expanded on our database and the SSIS package to annotate version metadata, manage error metrics ...