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Chapter 18: Getting Integrated with Integration Services<br />

This may bring about the question “Well, why doesn’t everybody use it then since it’s built in?” The<br />

answer is one of how intuitive it is in a cross-platform environment. There are third-party packages out<br />

there that are much more seamless and have fancier UI environments. These are really meant to allow<br />

unsophisticated users to move data around relatively easily — they are also outrageously expensive.<br />

Under the old DTS product, I actually had customers that were Oracle- or other DBMS-oriented, but<br />

purchased a full license for <strong>SQL</strong> <strong>Server</strong> just to make use of DTS (what <strong>SQL</strong> <strong>Server</strong>’s ETL was called<br />

prior to <strong>SQL</strong> <strong>Server</strong> 2005).<br />

Using the Impor t/Expor t Wizard to<br />

Generate Basic P ackages<br />

544<br />

An SSIS package is essentially the SSIS equivalent to a program. It bundles up a set of instructions (potentially<br />

including limited conditional branch logic) such that it can be moved around, cloned, edited, and so<br />

on. The Import/Export Wizard is a tool to automate building such a package for a relatively simple import<br />

or export.<br />

To use the Import/Export Wizard, you need to start the <strong>SQL</strong> <strong>Server</strong> Business Intelligence Suite tool from<br />

the programs menu on your system, and start a new Integration Services project (as shown in Figure 18-1).<br />

Figure 18-1<br />

On the far right (assuming you haven’t moved any of the dockable windows around), you should find a<br />

node in the Solution Explorer called SSIS Packages. Right-click this, and choose the SSIS Import and<br />

Export Wizard as shown in Figure 18-2.

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