Microsoft SQL Server Component

Overview

Semarchy xDI allows to work with Microsoft SQL Server to produce fully customized Data Flows.

The database structure can be entirely reversed in Metadata and then used in Mappings and Processes to design and adapt the business rules to meet the user’s requirements.

Install the Microsoft SQL Server Component

If you did not install it yet, install the Microsoft SQL Server component in Designer by following the component installation process.

Supported Features

Common Features

Feature Description

Reverse

Metadata can be reverse engineered.

DDL/DML Operations

DML/DDL operations can be performed on the database, such as: Insert, Update, Select, Delete, Create or Drop.

Integration Methods

  • Append

  • Incremental Update

Load Methods

  • Generic Load

  • Microsoft SQL Server BULK INSERT statement

  • Microsoft SQL Server BCP command line utility

Staging Methods

This technology can be used as a staging to make data transformation, mutualization, and more.

The following methods are supported:

  • Staging as Sub-Query

  • Staging as View

  • Staging as Table

Rejects

Reject rules can be defined to filter or detect data that does not fulfill the rules during integrations.

Replication

Data can be replicated from or to this technology using Replicators.

Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD)

Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) feature can be used optionnaly when integrating data in this technology.

Change Data Capture (CDC)

Change Data Capture (CDC), which allows to capture, follow and store all the changes during data integration, is supported.

Sub-Metadata support

The Microsoft SQL Server component lets you create Sub-Metadata on Microsoft SQL Server schema and query folder Metadata nodes.

To learn more about Sub-Metadata, see Work with Sub-Metadata.