Hi Joann,

I appreciate your feedback and frustration. I have added more material near the end of this article in the hope that it offers some clarification for beginning an SSIS project from scratch with no experience. That was my intention in writing this series, to help those who have never used SSIS learn the platform.

The new section begins with "Play Along at Home." Could you do me a favor? Will you start there and see if you are able to create an SSIS project? I would like to know - either way.

People learn differently, and no one learns "wrongly" in my opinion. This is one reason why writing pragmatic tutorials can be challenging. Another reason is authors of tutorials (me, in this case) often do not remember what it was like back at the beginning when they were just starting to learn something. We "don't know what we know" - at least sometimes. And so we overlook some parts and just leave other parts out. I assure you it is not intentional. And the last thing I want to read is a complaint such as yours. But, your feedback motivated me to take a fresh look at the material and add more content. Hopefully, this improves the value of the material for you. But I will not know unless you tell me.

Andy