Running the SSIS Import and Export Wizard

The SSIS Import and Export Wizard is a streamlined interface solely used to generate SSIS packages for importing or exporting data. It is really quite powerful and provides an easy but sophisticated way to move data from or to any OLE DB, ODBC, or text source to another OLE DB, ODBC, or text source. You can also define simple or complex data transformations using the many options provided by the wizard. The wizard can also copy database schema, but the transfer of all other database objects, such as indexes, constraints, users, permissions, stored procedures, and so on, is supported only between SQL Server 7.0 and higher SQL Servers.

The SSIS Import and Export Wizard takes the user through five basic ...

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