SQL Server Integration Services is not a new technology, this technology is a mature data transfer and data consolidation tool which has been in the market since 2005. Prior than that SSIS had another name; DTS. However SSIS nowadays is capable of doing far more than what DTS had to offer.

You can transfer data from any source to any destination, you can upload or download files, you can set priority on execution of tasks, you can call third party applications or command lines, you can get part of the data from Web Service, you can zip or unzip result set, change structure of the result set and load it wherever you want.

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