Creating a data warehouse with SQL Server 2008 Enterprise

Question

I need to build a Data Warehouse for an existing SQL Server database. I already have the design of the star schema dimension and fact tables. My question is:

Is there a tool in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise to help me with translating my data from the transactional database into the new data warehouse database? I am looking for a tool that helps me cleanup my data and populate the warehouse tables. I have done this before in an academic environment using Oracle databases. In this case I had to do everything "manually" with SQL.

Answer 1

You must check IMPORT and EXPORT functionality of MS - SQL SERVER, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDfhTPU7P-M

Answer 2

you should learn SSIS (not that hard) but first step is to load data. Quick and dirty way to do this is Import/Export Wizard - once you go through its steps, you can even save it as SSIS package and then tweak it as needed.

Some developers use SSIS heavily specifically data flows to clean-up and conform data. Some developers use SSIS only to bring data to a staging area (tables) and then would use SQL Stored procedures to transform/manipulate data on SQL Server.