January 2006
Beginner to intermediate
720 pages
19h 26m
English
book
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
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2.4. Creating Your First Package
Before you jump into the fundamentals of the toolset, you should exercise some of the BIDS features by creating a very basic package. If you don't understand some of this, don't worry yet. It will make much more sense later in this chapter and in Chapter 3. This quick example will show you how to configure a task and how to chain tasks together with precedence constraints.
Start by opening BIDS by selecting Start 
Programs 
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 
SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio. Once BIDS is open, select New 
Project from the File menu. Under the Business Intelligence Project Type on the left, select Integration Services Project. Call the project "Basic Package" for the Name option, and then click OK.
In the Solution Explorer to the right of BIDS, you'll see that an empty package called Package1.dtsx was created. On the left of BIDS is your Toolbox, which contains all of the work items that you can accomplish in whatever tab you're in. In the Toolbox, drag the Execute Process task over to the empty design pane in the middle. Double-click ...
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