Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

This chapter has covered the basics of stock Data Flow Task components. It showed you how to set them up and noted some important applications and typical uses of each. The samples for this chapter provide working packages to see the components in action. There is a sample package for each of the components. Although not mentioned profusely in this chapter, the sample packages are important. Running each of the samples will aid in fully understanding each of the components.

The following two chapters continue where this one leaves off. Chapter 21, "Using the Script Component," and the following chapter, Chapter 22, "Advanced Data Flow Transformations," document the more advanced and complex stock component offerings.