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Additional connection managers

- [Instructor] SQL Server Integration Services is built around the concept of data integration flexibility. The OLEDB, Excel, and Flat File connections will likely handle a good portion of your data. But everyone's data environment is unique, and a connection that provides the core foundation or your organization might be completely unheard of in another. And truth be told, most of the connection managers are just variations of what we've already seen. You fill in a path or a network location to the resource, supply any log-in credentials, and test the connection. For instance, if I come down here and right click and choose New Connection, we'll take a look at the ADO.NET connection type. I'll click the New button, and it asks for a server name, the logging credentials, and a specific database to connect to. This is just like what we saw with the OLEDB connection manager. Let's cancel out of this. Now let's take a look at the FTP connection. This would allow you to connect to an FTP…

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