June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
636 pages
14h 42m
English
“All rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is not full.”
—King Solomon
In SSIS, the data flow is your primary tool for moving data from point A to point B and manipulating it along the way. The data flow is a powerful concept that allows you to encapsulate your data movement and transformation as a self-contained task of the control flow. The data flow moves your data from a source to a destination, like King Solomon’s river moves water from its source to the sea. This chapter introduces the data flow and discusses data flow source adapters, destination adapters, and the new Source and Destination Assistants.
The data flow is contained within the confines of the Data Flow task ...