The SSIS Designer
The SSIS Designer is extremely easy to use and gives a user the flexibility of editing and manipulating any of the package properties in any order needed, as opposed to the strict sequential order of the SSIS Wizard. After you have mastered all the package concepts, you will find that you will be spending most of your time using the SSIS Designer instead of the wizard.
Because you have already created an SSIS package using the wizard, you can just open a version of this package (which you stored in the filesystem as a .dtsx file) with the SSIS Designer to see some of the SSIS Designer’s capabilities (see Figure 52.30). You simply locate a .dtsx package file (such as HotCustomersPlus.dtsx) using the File Open option within ...
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