SSIS Multicast...

One of the features available in SSIS data flow tasks is the Multi cast Transform. This allows us to make multiple copies of data which is fed into the Multi cast task. This task takes in a single input and the Multi cast task makes multiple copies of data available as the output, it is like xerox copy machine. Each of the outputs coming out of Multi task transform can be used in different ways in the sense that one output can be sent to a archive database destination, another output could be transformed into other forms of data. One of the uses which i have come across is where we need to push the production data down to different test/development environments, this type of package is really handy for DBA's.