SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) is a new Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tool that ships with SQL Server 2005. As with many of Microsoft s development tools, you can extend SSIS to perform other operations not already bundled with the product. SSIS provides the SSIS Class Library for just this purpose. The SSIS Class Library Object Model includes all the classes and interfaces you need to extend or augment SSIS.
SQL Server developers and administrators are no strangers to Data Transformation Services (DTS) packages. They likely develop DTS packages to perform everything from simple database operations to data aggregation. As such, when they upgrade some or all of their servers to SQL Server 2005, they must decide what to do with all of their DTS packages
