ETL+ for MS SQL Server
Installation Checklist
Connecting to MS SQL Server
Connecting to source data stored on a Microsoft SQL Server database. See also ETL+ Source Driver for Microsoft SQL Server.
If you haven’t installed ETL+ yet: ETL+ Deployment Instructions.
Login to ETL+ (help here).
Adding a new SQL database: On ETL page’s left panel, click
Add Source->MS SQL Server.Maintaining a MS SQL source: On ETL page’s left panel, right-click the MS SQL source →
Properties.On the Microsoft SQL Server page:
The
Aliasbox will be automatically populated, but you can customize it.Server name: the MS SQL Server instance name or IP address.Authentication: select the correct one and its credentials if applicable. Read-only rights required.Database name: The name of the SQL source database .Click the
Refreshicon on the right to load the list of database names.Use the
dropdown listand select the correct one.
Click
Connect.
You’ll get back to the ETL page and see tables under the new SQL source on the left panel.
For more see ETL+ Source Driver for MySQL
Mapping and Loading Tables
To view tables available from your SQL database on the left panel, right-click the SQL source →
Refresh.To map a SQL table to the data warehouse,
double-click its nameon the left panel, or right-click on it →Add Table.You’ll now see the table added/mapped to the center panel.
To preview its data, right-click the table on the center panel →
Preview.To load its data to the data warehouse, right-click the table on the center panel →
Load Now.Click the
Logicon (top right) to view data load results. Log page help here.
Schedule the Data Load
On the ETL main page, click
Refresh Batch(top right icon on the center panel).Select a Refresh Batch or create a new one to load your SQL data on a schedule (help here) → on the right panel, be sure the SQL tables to load have their boxes checked and in the desired load order.
To load them now, click the
Refresh Batch Now(play icon) on the left panel for the desired Refresh Batch.To schedule the data load:
Click
WTS Settings-> enter the WTS parameters →Apply.This step might require you to run ETL+ app as “Run as administrator” in Windows.
Click
Close->Close.
Testing
After ETL+ has loaded your SQL tables, this is to check if the data extraction process finished successfully and row count per extracted table matches with your SQL tables.
Steps
Login to ETL+ (help here).
On the ETL main page, click the top-right
Logicon. Log page help here.Scroll down on the log page and double-check that no table load failed, and the row count matches with the source SQL tables. Following is an example highlighting two tables from a sample SQL database and their loaded row count.
