Just a quick post to link to an SSIS article posted on the sqlperf blog - Getting Optimal Performance with Integration Services Lookups

The native providers (OLEDB, ODBC, ADO – ADO.NET doesn't have this problem) in the Execute SQL Task return the BIGINT type as a String, and not an Int64 as you'd expect. Attempting to store the result in an Int64 variable gives you an error along the...

Awhile back we went through a lot of customer feedback logged through the Connect site concerning the Transfer SQL Server Objects task. Some of these turned out to be bugs, but a lot of the reported issues stemmed from usability problems with the task...