SQL Server 2008 has grabbed the headlines but Microsoft has improved SSIS 2008, too. Many new features of SQL Server 2008 have grabbed the headlines in the past year or so but quietly Microsoft has ...

Visual Studio 2022 has been out for some eight months now, but it still lacks full support for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), a top feature request.

SSIS is a popular and mature tool for performing data movement and cleanup operations. In the Microsoft ecosystem, SSIS is one of the most common extract, load, and transform (ETL) tools in use today.

Note – This book abbreviates SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as SSRS and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services as SSRS2K5. New features available in SSRS and not in SSRS2K5 are labeled with “New in ...