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Introduction to SSIS | 17-18 Mar | Online | Book | |||
Introduction to SSIS | 16-17 Apr | Online | Book | |||
Fast track SSIS | 12-14 May | Online | Book | |||
Introduction to SSIS | 15-16 May | Online | Book | |||
Introduction to SSIS | 16-17 Jun | Online | Book | |||
Introduction to SSIS | 16-17 Jul | Online | Book | |||
Fast track SSIS | 16-18 Jul | Online | Book | |||
Introduction to SSIS | 14-15 Aug | Online | Book | |||
Fast track SSIS | 10-12 Sep | Online | Book | |||
Introduction to SSIS | 15-16 Sep | Online | Book | |||
Introduction to SSIS | 16-17 Oct | Online | Book | |||
Fast track SSIS | 12-14 Nov | Online | Book | |||
Introduction to SSIS | 17-18 Nov | Online | Book | |||
Introduction to SSIS | 11-12 Dec | Online | Book |
If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.
Here are some comments we've received about our SSIS + training. You can see all of our 528 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.
"The Team all thought that the trainer had an excellent working knowledge of the subject and responded well to any queries we had. All in all a very positive experience. I chose the course off the back of an SSIS article I found online. The explanations in the article were excellent."
Michael Street
Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
"The trainer was brilliant and very knowledgeable on the subject. He covered the course material at a good pace and was happy to answer any questions"
James Langrick
Southend-on-Sea City Council
"All good, very pleased and would use company again."
David Griffiths
Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
"Good course structure and the trainer was excellent. Many thanks."
Dorothy Titus-Glover
Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
"A lovely and approachable trainer with extensive knowledge."
Alicja Niedzwiedziuk
Southend-on-Sea City Council
"The course was really helpful, informative and covered all areas needed (and listed in the course guide). The trainer was easy to approach and to ask for help and a very effective trainer. This recent experience, along with past experience of Wise Owl, confirms that you're a great company. Your website is the first I go to whenever looking at future training."
Rebecca Kirkby
East Coast Community Healthcare CIC
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is what's called ETL software, standing for Extract, Transform and Load.
SSIS allows you to do the following:
Task | Notes |
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Extract | You can get data from a wide range of data sources (our introductory course concentrates on SQL Server, Excel and CSV or text files, but the principles apply to any data source). |
Transform | Integration Services includes a wide variety of data transforms. Our introductory course will show you (for example) how to use data conversion transforms to convert data; derived column transforms to add new columns; lookup transforms to compare data against a master list; and conditional split transforms to split data according to some test that you execute against each row. |
Load | Finally, you can send data to a variety of destinations, including SQL Server, Excel and text files. |
In addition to the above, our two-day introductory course will show you how to work with files using file system tasks. Here are some of the things you'll learn how to do:
What | Notes |
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Basic tasks | Creating folders and copying files. |
Loops | Looping over all of the files in a folder. |
Multiple imports | Looping over (for example) all of the workbooks in a folder, importing the data from each. |
We also have a two-day advanced SSIS course, which concentrates on script tasks and script components in SSIS, teaching you how to write script like this:
public void Main()
{
// work out number of films
int gf = Convert.ToInt32(Dts.Variables["GoodFilms"].Value);
int bf = Convert.ToInt32(Dts.Variables["BadFilms"].Value);
int nf = gf + bf;
// show results
MessageBox.Show("There are " + nf.ToString() + " films");
Dts.TaskResult = (int)ScriptResults.Success;
}
We use C# rather than VB as a scripting language for several reasons, one of them being that this is the language used in SSIS expressions anyway.
The advanced course will also show how you can use SSIS to send mail, react to events, log data - and much more!
If you consider yourself to be a fast learner, you might consider our fast-track SSIS course, which combines the introduction and advanced courses together into three intensive days. If you're still not sure which course is right for you, there's more help available for choosing here.
Here's a scenario where using Integration Services could not only free up your time, but also ensure that data was processed accurately too:
Imagine that each month each division of your organisation submits results in a CSV file. This contains a few free-text header lines which you always have to delete, then thousands of rows of transactions.
You know that the data is often a bit iffy: dates come in a format which no other software application will read, and product names are frequently misspelt.
You want to import all of the data into a single SQL Server table, cleaning it up in the process, then move the CSV files to an archive folder, renaming them in the process.
Integration Services would allow you to do all of the above in a single package, which would have the additional advantage of having a flow diagram clearly laid out showing the order of execution of the different tasks.
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Phone | Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone! |
Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours. | |
Web | Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help! |
We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn SSIS:
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