Thursday, October 25, 2012

How are variables created and initialized? Explain metadata in regards to SSIS:


How are variables created and initialized?  Explain metadata in regards to SSIS:


 Variables are created by right click inside the control flow , then click the variables->Then we see a variable window where we can create a variable, declare the variable with the data type and initialize the variable by giving the value of variables.
METADATA
Metadata simply means data with in a data. For example if there is an employee table then metadata can be ‘This table includes the employee list of the company ‘  But In SSIS , we used Derived Column transformation, a developer can add a column or columns to the data transformation process based on variables or expressions. The values of these variables or expressions can be set during the execution process, and can include technical metadata such as the file name of the source of the data row, the date/time of the processing, or the name or ID of the Integration Services package that transformed the data. We can show how the Derived Column transformation can be used to read technical metadata about the package and use that metadata in an audit. For example, we can audit the version of the package that was executed, and when the package was run. Here  the metadata being audited includes the creator, build version, major version, minor version, and source file name.

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