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Advanced SSIS Training Course

Two days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£1,295

Classroom (Manchester)
£995

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£825

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

You should only consider attending this course if you've attended our two-day introduction to SSIS course, or if you have a thorough understanding of how to create sources, destinations and transforms in SSIS.

Course schedule

We don't have any dates scheduled for this online course. We may consider adding more dates - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, if you have a handful of like-minded people in your organisation, you could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Advanced SSIS training course contents

The main thing that you'll learn from this advanced course is how to use script tasks (in control flow) and script components (in data flow) to validate data, send mail, check file attributes and much more. The course uses C# for its scripting language (as for various reasons you should too - if youv'e never used C# before you might like to consider booking a place on our two-day introduction to C# course first, before attending this course). In addition to scripting, the course also includes a smorgasbord of other topics, such as creating dynamic property values and logging packages to SQL Server.

The contents of this course are as follows:

A quick C# primer

Writing methods
Using variables
Using namespaces

Script tasks

Message boxes
Setting return status

Variables in script

Passing variables in/out
Referencing in code

Script components

Input and output flows
Manipulating values in script

Sending mail

Limitations of the Send Mail task
The System.Mail namespace
Sending emails in code

Accessing file attributes

FileInfo and DirectoryInfo
Accessing file properties
Filtering by file date/time

Dynamic expressions

Using expressions for properties
Ideas for expressions to use

Advanced loops

Looping over XML files
Looping over items
FOR loops

Using package parts

Storing components for reuse
Using package parts

Logging and auditing if time

Logging to text files
Logging to SQL Server
Audit transforms

Events if time

Creating an event
Pre- and post-execute events
Error-handling using events

Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

No more than 6 people per class
561 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

Proper restaurant lunch included

And some benefits specific to online training:

Courseware manual posted to you in advance
Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"Our trainer was great - very personable & knowledgeable. Thought the course was well presented. Would definitely recommend this course, our trainer and Wise Owl as a company and really enjoyed the snacks..!"

Lindsay Haynes (Derby and Burton Hospitals NHS FT)

"The trainer was really engaging and delivered the course excellently - thank you! Recommended by a colleague in L&D."

Nena Adrienne (Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG))

"The informal chats and lunch we had throughout the day helped make the course really engaging. Given it was a basic overview I feel I now have a really good grasp of Power BI to move forward with. Colleagues had done the course before and said how good it was."

Sophia Sharpley (Sage Publishing)

"I like the course, it was a good intro to PBI and the trainer was very helpful in answering questions and pointing us in the right direction. Whole two days were run in a really professional manner, good structure and pace of the course and it seems no one was left behind. I was glad to see equipment and workbooks were provided and all files for the exercises prepared and easily accessible. I like also examples and references to Excel."

Dariusz Blaszczak (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)

"Our trainer was very nice and personable, great teacher and answered questions efficiently. She was also good at identifying the group experience level and tailoring taught content to this level and to what we wanted to learn, when there was time. Good that the most necessary sections were taught and other relevant pages were highlighted for our future reference. Notepad and pen were a nice addition to the course pack."

Vanessa Anucha (STMicroelectronics (R&D) Ltd)

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed. This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

familiarise yourself with the set-up;
meet your trainer; and
get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

Related Courses

You might like to consider these related courses:

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