Implementing ETL with SQL Server Integration Services

The course is very premature and quite disappointing from an experienced data scientist at Microsoft. The contents are neither introductory nor advances. It is not clear where is the level of this course. It starts with fairly complex ETL design using scripting. The lecturer only shows what he is doing without detail description of how things are made and why they are made this way.

In the second part of the content, it goes to Microsoft SSIS and then it becomes quite introductory course for someone who has absoloutly 0 knowledge and experience on SSIS.

At the end, you think if this was advance, why SSIS part is so basic. If it is basic, why scripting part was so abstract.

The bottom line: This course is nothing muh to teach you. It is somehow good for someone who has been doing the ETL development and SSIS design for sometimes now. It only can teach some of the best practices of scripting SQL ETL. In the second part, there is surely nothing at all to see. By looking at 1-2 youtube video, you can do far more than what this is telling you.

In terms of student engagement, there are 20 videos in line for module 2 and then few very strange lab assignments. I wish I could have the chance to do coding on my own as the course moves on. Also, I wish there was some small test and questsions in the middle of the modules to stimulate my brain and help me to understand if I really understood the gist.

All in all, I can tell you to only view videos on fast forward speed and see some of the contents and watch carefully if you found something worthy for you.