May 6, 2009

Attunity Oracle-CDC for SSIS

SQL 2008 Enterprise Edtion has a nice feature "change data capture"(CDC) which would reduce a lot of efforts when dealing with SCD2. However, your SQL 2005 may have to stay in production for a long while or you may not have 2008 Enterprise Edition, and you need to extract data from Oracle database. Here is a good news for you.

Attunity provide a simple solution for replicating and integrating Oracle data efficiently and in real-time using SSIS.

The following information is from Attunity:
"Attunity Oracle-CDC for SSIS addresses the key challenges that data integration teams face in addressing business and IT requirements. Using it, you can:

  • Simplify and accelerate CDC implementation
  • Deliver real-time information
  • Design efficient data integration solutions
  • Leverage existing SQL Server investments
  • Reduce resources and costs

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More info can be found in its website
http://www.attunity.com/oracle_cdc_for_ssis


Although the tool is not free, I would like to try its trail version whenever I have an opportunity.