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SQL Server and Integration Services provide plenty of tools for package management that you’ll learn about in this course. These include Management Studio and SQL Server Agent, as well as command line and graphical utilities like DTUtil, DTExec, and DTExecUI. With these tools you can execute packages in various ways and move, copy, and encrypt packages. To give one idea of how flexible these tools can be, there are at least four ways to execute a package, besides SQL Server Data Tools. You’ll learn some of the most important techniques for managing packages and some of the tools you can use, including those various ways to execute packages. There is a lot of overlapping functionality, so it is important to learn enough about all the tools so that you can use the ones best suited to your preferences, environment, and work style.

This course assumes that you have a basic familiarity with the concept of relational databases and a basic understanding of what SQL Server is and the high-level tools in it, as well as how to create and manage objects using Management Studio. You should also have a basic understanding of how SQL Server implements security, including its authentication and authorization schemes, and how to assign permissions on securable objects to principals. You should know the fundamentals of Transact-SQL to write queries to retrieve data and join data from multiple tables, and how to execute scripts using the query editor in Management Studio. You must also know how to connect to an instance of SQL Server 2012 or 2014 using the various connection dialog boxes in Management Studio and development tools. It will be very helpful, but not absolutely necessary, to have experience with .NET development using Visual Studio 2013 or later for the portions of the course that deal with SQL Server Data Tools (which is a lot of it). At the very least, we’ll assume that you are well familiar with the Visual Studio user interface. This course assumes no prior knowledge of SQL Server Integration Services beyond what is covered in the previous SSIS courses.