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Professional SQL Server™ 2005 Integration Services
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Professional SQL Server™ 2005 Integration Services

by Brian Knight, Allan Mitchell, Darren Green, Douglas Hinson, Kathi Kellenberger, Andy Leonard, Erik Veerman, Jason Gerard, Haidong Ji, Mike Murphy
January 2006
Beginner to intermediate
720 pages
19h 26m
English
Wrox
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2.3. Business Intelligence Development Studio

The Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) is where most of your time is spent as a SSIS developer. It is where you create, deploy, and manage your SSIS projects.

BIDS uses a light version of Visual Studio 2005. If you have the full version of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 installed, you can create business intelligence projects there as well in the full interface. Either way, the user experience is the same. In SQL Server 2005, the SSIS development environment is detached from SQL Server, so you can develop your SSIS solution offline and then deploy it to wherever you'd like in a single click. Previously, in SQL Server 2000, you had to connect to a SQL Server instance in Enterprise Manager and then open the DTS Designer to create a package.

BIDS can be seen in the root of the SQL Server program group. Once you start BIDS, you'll be taken to the Start Page. An example of a Start Page is shown in Figure 2-9. You can see that a few windows are already open by default: Solution Explorer, Toolbox, Output, and Class View. You can open more windows (you'll learn about these various windows in a moment) by clicking their corresponding icon in the upper-right corner or under the View menu.

The Start Page contains key information about your BIDS environment, such as the last few projects that you had open under the Recent Projects box. In the Getting Started box, you can click Import and Export settings to import your Visual ...

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