Performance of SQL Server & SSIS

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This is not a valid performance comparasion by any means, but I noticed something interesting when doing simple data transfers from SQL Server to SQL Server via SSIS & SQL Server.

The situation was copying ~6.7 Millions records from one database to another (on the same machine). I first tried it using the Import/Export wizard, and then using this script:

INSERT

INTO Customers
SELECT * FROM Another.Cutomers

The performance of both of them was nearly identical (10 seconds difference in a 6.5 minutes operation, which can be explained by different machine loads).