Chapter 19: Case Study: A Programmatic Example

Overview

Typically a book like this has to cover so much material that there is not enough space to really dig into some of the typical issues that you run into when you put the book down and start putting together your first solution. You end up coming back to the book to flip through all of the one-off examples, but they just don't seem to provide any insight or applicability to your current project or deadline. The case study is your best chance to get specific, to get into the ring, to take a business issue and run with it. Hopefully you'll be the beneficiary of this.

You will use the SSIS environment to solve a payment processing problem with varying levels of quality payment data that has to be validated against corporate billing records. This example is a little different from the typical data-warehouse-type ETL case study; it's a little more programmatic. You'll combine the need to import heterogeneous data formats and to validate and apply programming logic into a solid learning opportunity that showcases the new capabilities of SSIS.