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Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) |  | Authors: Brian Knight, Erik Veerman, Grant Dickinson, Douglas Hinson, Darren Herbold
Publisher: Wrox
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Pages: 1008
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ISBN: 0470247959
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585
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Publication Date: October 6, 2008
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Product Description
- The new edition of the successful previous version is 25 percent revised and packed with more than 200 pages of new material on the 2008 release of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
- Renowned author Brian Knight and his expert coauthors show developers how to master the 2008 release of SSIS, which is both more powerful and more complex than ever
- Case studies and tutorial examples acquired over the three years since the previous edition will contribute to helping illustrate advanced concepts and techniques
- New chapters include coverage of data warehousing using SSIS, new methods for managing the SSIS platform, and improved techniques for ETL operations
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 An End to End reference for SSIS 2008 March 29, 2010
Rajkumar Ramasamy (Monrovia, CA, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is a complete End to End reference guide for SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. This book starts with a very good basic introduction to the all the tools and tasks available in SSIS. There is very detailed explanation of the basic tasks which are more frequently used such as Script Task, Execute SQL task and Send Email. Good description on the containers which we need for looping through a set of tasks which is more common in any development.
During development, the most common thing we would like to /need to do is making the package dynamic. There is a good chapter to explain how to use expressions effectively to have runtime configurations in the package. Other very good chapters to refer are Scripting in SSIS which explains the scripting capabilities using .NET and C#. The chapter, Accessing Heterogeneous Data, which explains how to access various heterogeneous data sources such as Excel, Flat File, XML, ADO.NET, OLE DB and many with examples.
The later chapters explain more about optimizing SSIS packages, error handling and event handling, Migrating DTS Packages. The chapter which explains accessing external applications is good but needs more examples to highlight the capability of SSIS accessing various external applications.
Too many pages, yes, the book has. But to refer SSIS with good samples and Screenshots (The screenshots are helpful in few instances), I wouldn't mind reading these many pages.
For any new developer, who wants to know from the basics and a complete End to End flow of SSIS before start using SQL Server 2008 Integration for ETL development, this is one good reference book I would recommend.
 Not good on the Kindle November 15, 2009
Magnus Salgo (Stockholm Sweden)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is a walklthrough of SSIS with some practical examples. T many pages to be my kind of book and a little bit to much a copy of screen instead of advice and best practice.
As I bought this on Kindle I feel this is not a book that you should read on a Kindle only. The good thing with a kindle is that you always have the book on the Kindle or in Kuindle for PC....
but... screen dumps are really difficult to read. There are no links to follow, when you jump to the TOC you will land on Chapter 1 so it is impossible to understand if they speak about Chapter 7 if you should move forward or backward instead you have walkthrough TOC to find where it is and guess where you are positioned right now
A great friend in building SSIS development skill August 28, 2009
Sudheer K. Maharana
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been working with SQL Server Data Transformation Services (DTS) for the past 12 years and now in SSIS for the past 4 years. Normally, my experience during SSIS 2008 development is to get some reference in internet which was a limited one. This book is very informative to an extent that I can say this is by far the best book I have referred in SSIS. It gives a jump start to a DTS developer to the world of SSIS development in SQL Server 2008 using C# or VB.Net and covers widely in all the Control Flow and Data Flow tasks. The authors have provided due attention in providing example code in both the languages for the reader to try where ever necessary. In this book I especially liked the chapters Using Expression and variables, scripting in SSIS, Accessing Heterogeneous Data, Tuning SSIS, WMI integration. Coming to WMI, the book could have covered a little more in this particular chapter but it definitely helps extending the imagination of readers on the power of WMI using SSIS.
I will definitely recommend this book to my peers out there who plan to extend their ETL development skill using SSIS.
Excellent Reference - Not fireside reading July 20, 2009
Cory D. (Montgomery AL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Professional SSIS 2008 by Wrox is an excellent reference and introduction to the spirit of SQL Server Integration Services. It also serves as an introduction to the subject of Data Warehousing, and it highlights the differences between SSIS 2005 and SSIS 2008.
The book is easy to read; I finished a quarter of it in one sitting. The illustrations and diagrams are superb throughout most of the book.
However, there are some chapters needing light grammatical revision and I can remember at least one diagram that was of noticeably low quality.
This book is a hybrid between "pure reference" and a "my first time with x" book. However, the expertise and simple approach to the software available in this book make it more than worth the price.
My proficiency with SSIS has increased greatly from reading this book. I use SSIS for several things: the synchronization of a data warehouse with e-commerce sites, backup management, and more.
huh? March 23, 2009
Kin M. Hui (addison, tx)
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
great stuff from Brain. Chapters from him is highly readable and useful.
Who wrote Chapter 13? With the run on sentences, much of the chapter doesn't make sense.
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