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SQL Server Integration Services(SSIS) Performance Tuning

When creating an efficient and robust solution for Extract, Transform and Load Process, Lot of things do matter especially when you are working with huge size of databases. Challenge is not only to meet functional requirements Also to look at the performance requirements. Here, I would like to cover most of the part on extracting and loading process, I will not discuss (Buffer usage, Execution tree, Parallelism etc.) You will find those details here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966529.aspx Let’s discuss few necessary steps when we want to optimize the extracting and loading process in the package. Before you make any changes in your package, always use SSIS advance functionality to monitor and log metadata about package execution (SSIS Logging, SSIS Performance Counter, and SQL Server Profiler) Steps you should check while creating SSIS package: 1.    Remove unwanted columns from the source and set data types appropriately; this will help you with buffer ...