I've been working for the past several weeks on taking some jobs that:
1) download daily data from an IBM Ppower7i system
2) import it into SQL Server data warehouse
3) massage and perform summary calculations
4) send some daily report data via e-mail by exporting data to a flat file then attaching it, or by doing an OSQL output redirect to a text file and making that the body of the e-mail
This has involved moving from SQL 2005 on Win 2003 (using DTS jobs originally developed on SQL 7). All the DTS jobs have been converted to SSIS packages. All the imports and transforms are working well. I've run comparison queries on both databases after nightly DL/imports run, and get the same totals from tables on both servers.
Using BLAT to send e-mails.
However, I'm having issues with some of the e-mailed reports when the jobs run overnight via Task...