The OLE DB scanner for Microsoft® Repository is a utility that imports database schema information from an OLE DB data source and populates instances of the Database Information Model (DBM) in the Repository. The scanner is passed an OLE DB provider, examines the schema, and creates a set of corresponding instance objects in Repository using the DBM and Data Transformation Services (DTS) Repository information models.
If you save a DTS package to Repository, you can set how the objects referenced by the DTS package are related to Microsoft SQL Server catalog metadata scanned into Repository. Metadata in this context refers to information such as: