Dear Jamie,

I just wanted to get some feed back from you about performance in Integration Services.  I've been using it for two months and I have created a package that should pump 2.5 million records from my source to my destination.  Now I will say that I have several steps of sorting (Using the sort component) and merge join (using the merge join component).  But my performance is horrible.  I used the methodology outlined in your Article: " New ETL Paradigm"  I saw this component from ivolva.com  which they created as a third party component called extra sort.  It says it speeds up sorting.  Do you have ANY suggestions??? 

Thank you,

Mag