Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
What’s New with SSIS
In SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has further extended the capabilities of SSIS into a much more comprehensive and robust data integration platform—with the emphasis on the word platform. The following are some of the highlights of SSIS 2008:
• Continued support for SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Services (DTS). This includes DTS runtime, the object model that it exposes, and the dtsrun.exe command-line utility. This support will likely be deprecated in the next full release of SQL Server, though. There are several 64-bit restrictions with DTS.
• Extensive performance enhancements to leverage caching for lookup transformations, previously a major performance bottleneck during transformations. This also includes sharing ...
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