Hello World—Your First SSIS 2012 Package

Abstract

In the previous chapter, we introduced you to SQL Server 11’s development tools, BIDS and SSMS. Before we start discussing the in-depth details, we will walk you through some example packages to demonstrate the capabilities of this powerful toolset. As a developer, it is much easier for you to gain an understanding after you’ve tried out the tools for yourself. This chapter teaches you how to start with the simplest package, consisting of a Data Flow task that will have only a source and a destination. After walking you through creating the easy package, we will guide you through a more complex, real-life example of a package. This package’s goal will be to emulate some of the potential requirements that may become a part of your ETL process, and as such is a relatively complex example to be introduced in the third chapter.

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