Microsoft has dabbled in the ETL (extract-transform-load) marketplace for a long time, in fact, almost 2 decades. Way back in the day, SQL Server shipped with a command-line tool known as the Bulk ...

The lifeline for any business intelligence solution is the process called extract, transform, and load (ETL). According to a recent survey by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), ETL design and ...

As I pointed out in my recent article, How the ETL Bottleneck Will Kill Your Business, companies must become ETL masters and learn to generate and operate a growing portfolio of ETL jobs if they are ...

I have never used SQL Server Integration Services before and need to extract data out of several Access databases, then transform it and load it into an SQL Server table. Migrating data from Access to ...