If you’ve picked up this book, Knight’s Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services 24-Hour
Trainer, you’ve decided to learn one of SQL Server’s most exciting applications, SQL Server Integration
Services (SSIS). SSIS is a platform to move data from nearly any data source to nearly any destination
and helps you by orchestrating a workflow to organize and control the execution of all these events.
Most who dive into SSIS use it weekly, if not daily, to move data between partners, departments, or
customers. It’s also a highly in-demand skill—even in the worst of economic environments, jobs are
still posted for SSIS developers. This is because no matter what happens in an economy, people still
must move and transform data.
This book, then, is your chance to start delving into this powerful and marketable application. And
what’s more, this is not just a book you’re holding right now. It’s a video learning tool, as well. We
became passionate about video training a number of years ago when we realized that in our own
learning we required exposure to multiple teaching techniques to truly understand a topic—
a fact that is especially true with tutorial books like this one. So, you’ll find hours of videos on the
DVD in this book to help you learn SSIS better than reading about the topic alone could and to help
demonstrate the various tutorials in the book.