Integration Services

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is Microsoft’s new enterprise class data Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tool. SSIS is a completely new product built from the ashes of SQL Server 2000’s Data Transformation Services (DTS). SSIS offers a much richer feature set and the ability to create much more powerful and flexible data transformations than its predecessor.

This huge improvement, however, is not without a cost. SSIS is a fairly complex tool and offers a completely different design paradigm than DTS. Database administrators adept at the former tool are very often intimidated and frustrated by the new SSIS. Their biggest mistake is in thinking that Integration Services would just be an upgrade of Data Transformation Services.
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