Creating SSIS Jobs

SSIS is very good at exporting and importing data. For this reason, you'll use the example of a data export job as the SSIS job. Exercise 13.2 steps you through the process of creating the SSIS export package with the Export Wizard.

EXERCISE 13.2 Creating the SSIS Export Package

In this exercise, you will use the Data Export Wizard in SSMS to generate a SSIS package that you can run as a job step. The package will export data in Excel format and store it in a file on the desktop of the server. The exported data will come from the Sales.SalesOrderHeader and Sales.SalesOrderDetail tables in the AdventureWorks database.

To create the SSIS Export package, follow these steps:

  1. Launch the SSMS application and expand the Databases ...

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