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Published inJun 2017
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781786461827
Edition1st Edition
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Christian Cote
Christian Cote
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Christian Cote

Christian Cote is an IT professional with more than 15 years of experience working in a data warehouse, Big Data, and business intelligence projects. Christian developed expertise in data warehousing and data lakes over the years and designed many ETL/BI processes using a range of tools on multiple platforms. He's been presenting at several conferences and code camps. He currently co-leads the SQL Server PASS chapter. He is also a Microsoft Data Platform Most Valuable Professional (MVP).
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Dejan Sarka
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Dejan Sarka

Dejan Sarka, MCT and Microsoft Data Platform MVP, is an independent trainer and consultant who focuses on the development of database and business intelligence applications. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group.
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Matija Lah
Matija Lah
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Matija Lah

Matija Lah has more than 18 years of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server, mostly from architecting data-centric solutions in the legal domain. His contributions to the SQL Server community have led to him being awarded the MVP Professional award (Data Platform) between 2007 and 2017/2018. He spends most of his time on projects involving advanced information management and natural language processing, but often finds time to speak at events related to Microsoft SQL Server where he loves to share his experience with the SQL Server platform.
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Profiling data with SSIS


The objective of this task is to work with SSIS to profile the data to find the potentially wrong values. In this exercise, you will create an SSIS package with a single task, the data profiling task. Then you will execute the package to profile a set of data. Finally, you will check the results with the data profile viewer application.

Getting ready

You need to have installed the AdventureWorkDW2014 demo database for this exercise.

You can download the full database backup ZIP file Adventure Works DW 2014 Full Database Backup.zip from this link: https://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/releases . In addition, the backup file is provided with the source code for this book. Assuming that you copied the AdventureWorksDW2014.bak file to the C:\SSIS2016Cookbook folder, you can use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to execute the following command to restore the database:

USE master; 
RESTORE DATABASE AdventureWorksDW2014 
 FROM  DISK = N'C:\SSIS2016Cookbook\AdventureWorksDW2014...
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Christian Cote

Christian Cote is an IT professional with more than 15 years of experience working in a data warehouse, Big Data, and business intelligence projects. Christian developed expertise in data warehousing and data lakes over the years and designed many ETL/BI processes using a range of tools on multiple platforms. He's been presenting at several conferences and code camps. He currently co-leads the SQL Server PASS chapter. He is also a Microsoft Data Platform Most Valuable Professional (MVP).
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Dejan Sarka

Dejan Sarka, MCT and Microsoft Data Platform MVP, is an independent trainer and consultant who focuses on the development of database and business intelligence applications. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group.
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Matija Lah

Matija Lah has more than 18 years of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server, mostly from architecting data-centric solutions in the legal domain. His contributions to the SQL Server community have led to him being awarded the MVP Professional award (Data Platform) between 2007 and 2017/2018. He spends most of his time on projects involving advanced information management and natural language processing, but often finds time to speak at events related to Microsoft SQL Server where he loves to share his experience with the SQL Server platform.
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