I am going to get myself in trouble (again) by saying this but SSIS isn’t a Business Intelligence tool as much as it is a developer tool. If you are like me, you have written a lot of code does, basically, the following: Extracts the data from some place; Transforms that data somehow; Loads the transformed data into database or some other ...

On 6 August 2008, I will be giving a presentation to the Omaha SQL/BI User Group on the new features in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. We will talk about improvements in scripting, how the redesigned pipeline improves performance and how to leverage the new Cache Transform to improve package performance. Quinn Jones from Farm Credit ...