Chapter 5. Designing and Implementing Data Flow

Exam objectives in this chapter:

  • Extract and Transform Data

    • Design data flow.

    • Implement data flow.

The previous chapter covered control flow tasks that orchestrate the whole extract-transform-load (ETL) process. This chapter looks at the most important control flow task—the data flow task, which is a crucial component in the data warehouse project for ETL operations. All the components in a data flow task operate on rows of data. You can group the elements of the data flow task into three categories: data source adapters, data destination adapters, and data transformations. This chapter shows you how to create data flow tasks and use an appropriate ETL strategy.

Lessons in this chapter:

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