While working with SSIS 2008 recently, I needed some random data. While I was poking around on the same site, I found this:
http://www.sqlis.com/post/Trash-Destination-Adapter.aspx
From their webpage:
When developing a package it is very useful to have a destination adapter that does nothing but consume rows with no setup requirement. You often want run a package part way through development, or just add a path so you can set a Data Viewer. There are stock tasks that can be used, but with the Trash Destination all columns are treated as selected automatically (usage type of read-only), so the pipeline knows they are required. It is also obvious that this is for development or diagnostic purposes, and is clearly not a part of the functional design of the package.
So, basically it's a /dev/null for SSIS. Cool!
