.Net vs SSIS: What should SSIS be used for?

Question

If I have the option of using .Net and can do data transformations just fine in .Net, when would I need SSIS? Is there a certain task

Answer 1

I guess it depends on what you are doing. SSIS is very powerful, just like old DTS. If you are loading lots of items and expect to have constant change, I would go SSIS all the way. If you are looking to load only a few items and it’s for lots of customers, I would put it in code. I prefer SSIS for in house ETL processes, but I use .Net at client shops when I need to load data from a legacy system into a SQL database. Now as I stated before if you have a lot of transformations and lots of different data silos to load, I think you would be crazy to do this in .Net and I would go SSIS. If you have only a few items to load and it’s for a single application and may be installed as part of an application at various clients, I would go .Net all the way. Just my 2 cents.