Many thanks for the great, concise introduction to SSIS Andy!

I've inhereted a very complex operation with tons of existing SSIS packages. While I have had a little bit of experience using them in the forms you illustrated in Step 1 of your series on SSIS - backup-maintenance packages, and in saving a few import operations to packages, these were created by wizards and were simply repeatable processes. They didn't require much understanding of SSIS to produce or to use.

Your intro has allowed me to dive into the more complex existing packages we have and understand more about what they are doing and why. I am anxious to get to read the succeeding Steps you might have in store for us!

Many thanks for your efforts to produce this instructional series for us noobs! :w00t: