using SSIS to perform data validation in ETL app

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using SSIS to perform data validation in ETL app

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Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246979 More actions · Answer 1

jreece (6/22/2009)
John,
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I am now going to add a few derived columns - I thought "Create_Date" and "Change_Date" might be very useful for tracking updates.

You might also consider doing these at the database level. Your CreateDate field just needs a DefaultValue of GetDate() and ChangeDate needs an UPDATE trigger to keep it maintained ...

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John Rowan SSC Guru Points: 56440 More actions · Answer 2

Phil Parkin (6/22/2009)
jreece (6/22/2009)
John,
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I am now going to add a few derived columns - I thought "Create_Date" and "Change_Date" might be very useful for tracking updates.
You might also consider doing these at the database level. Your CreateDate field just needs a DefaultValue of GetDate() and ChangeDate needs an UPDATE trigger to keep it maintained ...

I think that depends on what you are after. I routinely use column defaults on CreateDate columns in OLTP systems. For OLAP or data warehouse DBs, I typically use a LoadDate column when loading data and I assign the LoadDate value from a variable in the SSIS package that gets its value at SSIS startup time so that everything that was loaded as part of the SSIS package run has the same LoadDate.

John Rowan

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jreece Ten Centuries Points: 1138 More actions · Answer 3

That's exactly what I want to do, tag all the records loaded with the same date stamp so I can identify them by batch. Thanks again - I can see it will take me a long time to get up to speed with this tool. I don't even know what I don't know. (sorry to get all Yogi Berra on you)

Deepmala Newbie Points: 1 More actions · Answer 4

?Well I have always used Daton's SQL connector for my Warehousing. You can add any Data Source here in a single place

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246979 More actions · Answer 5

Deepmala wrote:

?Well I have always used Daton's SQL connector for my Warehousing. You can add any Data Source here in a single place

Unless you are going to justify this comment by describing exactly how this product performs data validation, I am going to have to mark your comment as spam.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Martin Rees

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
Stan Laurel