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Prashant Kumar Mishra
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Prashant Kumar Mishra is an engineering architect at Microsoft. He has more than 10 years of professional expertise in the Microsoft data and AI segment as a developer, consultant, and architect. He has been focused on Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies for several years now and has helped various customers in their data journey. He prefers to share his knowledge with others to make the data community stronger day by day through his blogs and meetup groups.
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Using SQL Server Integration Services to import data

SSIS is an ETL tool that is used for data ingestion and orchestration purposes. This tool comes with the SQL Server license, so, if you already have a SQL Server license, you may want to use SSIS as your ETL tool instead of spending money on any other ETL services. However, it is important to understand the pros and cons of using the SSIS package instead of using an Azure PaaS service such as Data Factory.

So far, we have covered Synapse pipelines and Data Factory, and now it's time to learn how to bring data to Azure Synapse using SQL Server Integration Services. Follow these steps to create your SSIS package in Visual Studio:

  1. Launch Visual Studio and create a new Integration Services project in Visual Studio.
  2. Enter the project name and provide a file location for saving SSIS packages.
  3. Add Data Flow Task from the SSIS Toolbox to the canvas.
  4. Go to the Connection Managers window and right-click to select...
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Published in: Jun 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800205659

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Prashant Kumar Mishra

Prashant Kumar Mishra is an engineering architect at Microsoft. He has more than 10 years of professional expertise in the Microsoft data and AI segment as a developer, consultant, and architect. He has been focused on Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies for several years now and has helped various customers in their data journey. He prefers to share his knowledge with others to make the data community stronger day by day through his blogs and meetup groups.
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