Categories of Control Flow Tasks

Though the Toolbox in BI Development Studio (BIDS) shows Control Flow Tasks in two main groups, the Control Flow tasks can be categorized on the basis of the functionality they provide. Read through the following introductions quickly to understand how these tasks are categorized and organized in the control flow. You can reread this section whenever you need a quick description of a task.

Data Flow Task

This main task performs ETL (extracting, transforming, and loading) operations using the data flow engine.

Control Flow TaskDescription

Perform the ETL functions—i.e., extract data from a source, apply transformations ...

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