CHAPTER 9

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Augmenting ETL Processes

This chapter will cover how to use PowerShell to augment ETL development. We often need to load external files into a SQL Server database. However, these files usually need to go through some preparation before they can be loaded. Perhaps they arrive via FTP from an external source. Such files may be compressed. Perhaps they need to be scrubbed of bad values or modified to make them easier to load. After being loaded, the business may want the files archived and retained for a period of time. Before PowerShell, legacy-style batch files were often employed to do these tasks. However, batch files are cryptic, ...

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