congrats Steve! I especially like your writing in the Voice of DBA in SQLServerCentral.  Your sharing of IT knowledge and life outside work are both informative and inspiring! thanks again.

Your number 3 option should work for me:

3) Ask to have the SQL Server client tools installed on your machine (including BIDS) and create the package yourself. Ask a DBA...

thanks for replying me again. if I ask my dba to install BIDS on machine, what do you think he'll be concerned about? security? my skill/knowledge of SSIS?

i used to be able to use DTS to transfer data from source to destination in sql 2000. now we upgraded to sql 2008r2, my previlige is deprived. refreshing my...

thank you. before i ask my dba to install BIDS on my machine, is there any free version that i can play around first?

i have a similiar question: i have SSMS 2008r2. Our database server has SSIS installed. I want to view the packages. Do i need to install SSIS...