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

Maybe because they stop supporting it in April of this year.
Sounds like a good reason to me.

Another alternative no one has talked about is to get the developer
version and install it on a machine there. It will have SSIS on it
if you do the install of that portion of SQL Server.


At 10:55 AM 1/18/2008, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:51:06 -0500
>From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] SSIS, SQL Server Integration Services,
>         DTS
>To: "Discussion concerning MS SQL Server"
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>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.