You'll need to install the Oracle client on your SSIS system, which will give you the drivers you'll need to create a data source connection. Once you've done that, it's pretty much like using SQL Server as the source, with the exception that some of your SQL might be TSQL-specific, and it might have to be tweaked to work on Oracle (I'm thinking specifically of string manipulation functions in the SQL commands.).
There are some real headaches with the Oracle drivers in SSIS if you're running a 64-bit OS; if you're in that situation an ODBC connection can help smooth out the kinks.
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by: tomcatkevPosted on 2009-09-11 at 15:58:52ID: 25314141
SSIS = SQL Server Integrated Services. ki/SQL_Ser ver_Integr ation_Serv ices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
as far as I understand it, you need the same basic info you'd normally need to make an Oracle connection...
a username, a password, and a Service Name, and possibly a hostname and port name.
If you do "tnsping <oracle service name>" from a cmd prompt it should tell you the host and port, which is probably 1521.