DTS is Data Transformation Services
You use it to transform data. The source and destination of a transformation can be any one of many options (SQL Server, Access, Excel, text files, other database systems...). You can create DTS jobs and schedule them do get automated functionality out of SQL Server for regular tasks. We use them to generate CSV files for client reporting, also to transfer data to our test and production database servers, backup, all sorts of things. A DTS job can contain any number of tasks (object copying, VBScripts, command executions, etc) and can be related and dependent upon one another so that you can set up a linear execution plan for the tasks (versus them all running at once).
It is a very powerful tool, although the design interface can be a real pain to work in.
Peter
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