In contrast to Business Intelligence Studio, the first step to use SQL Server Management Studio is to log on to a server. In the Connect to Server dialog box (see Figure 16-45), you select Integration ...

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is an enterprise platform for setting up data integrations and data transformations. The main elements of the SSIS architecture are two engines. These ...

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

The coming year is going to be a big one for customers of Microsoft’s on-premises and/or cloud-integration technologies. Microsoft officials recently made available for download a roadmap for its ...