[dba-SQLServer] SSIS, SQL Server Integration Services, DTS

I could be wrong and this is "off the top of my forehead", as it were, but I
think that to go where you wish to go, you need a box with SQL 2000 and SQL
2005 installed. Then you can create the DTS pkgs in 2000 and run them in
2005 should you wish to do so.

Another alternative, which I'm sure applies to Europe as well as North
America, is to attend the roll-out for SQL 2008, VS 2008 and SharePoint
2008. Here in Toronto they are giving away copies of these three to all
attendees. Mind you, these are developer copies, not production copies, so
maybe that doesn't help your client.

A larger question emerges, in this context. Why is your client moving to SQL
2005 (or 2008 for that matter)? If SQL 2000 does everything required, why
move? I am a huge fan of the improvements in 2005, but if you don't need
them, why migrate? SQL 2000 is perhaps the most rock-solid product Microsoft
ever delivered, and if you cannot point to a concrete reason to move past
it, stay where you are, in the comfort zone.

hth,
A.

On 1/18/08, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
>
> Hi Arthur
>
> Thanks. I think I can stick with DTS as the tasks will be quite simple.
> But where do I go? I located this:
>
> Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer Components
>
> The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Services (DTS) package
> designer is a design tool used by developers and administrators of SQL
> Server 2005 servers to edit and maintain existing DTS packages until they
> can be upgraded or recreated in the SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
> package format. After installing this download, SQL Server 2005 users can
> continue to edit and maintain existing DTS packages from the Object Explorer
> in SQL Server 2005 Management Studio and from the Execute DTS 2000 Package
> Task Editor in Business Intelligence Development Studio, without needing to
> reinstall the SQL Server 2000 tools. The DTS package designer in this
> download was formerly accessed from the Data Transformation Services node in
> SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager.
>
> and downloaded and installed the file "SQLServer2005_DTS.msi".
>
> But now what? Close reading reveils "existing", so can't a new DTS package
> be created?
> I relaunched my "Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express" but the
> only item regarding DTS was found under Providers: DTSPackageDSO ...
>
> /gustav
>
>