Chapter 50. Why automate tasks with SSIS?
Ted Krueger
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a platform that offers many benefits when Windows Server and SQL Server are the primary technologies used. For cost reasons, SSIS is a good choice when SQL Server is already implemented. This is because a license is required only if SSIS is installed on a server other than one that has a fully licensed SQL Server Engine installed. SSIS integrates directly with SQL Server, and the integrated development environment (IDE) of Visual Studio .NET is used to develop SSIS packages. This can be valuable when Visual Studio .NET is already being used in house for other Microsoft-based development by limiting learning curves of the IDEs. By default, SQL Server ...
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