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Knight's 24-Hour Trainer: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) |  | Authors: Brian Knight, Devin Knight, Mike Davis
Publisher: Wrox
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Edition: Pap/Dvdr
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ISBN: 0470496924
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585
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Publication Date: July 20, 2009
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Product Description
A unique book-and-video package for learning Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services If you need a practical, hands-on introduction to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS), this book and video package from foremost SSIS authority Brian Knight gets you thoroughly up to speed. Each lesson in the book includes three major components: a thorough description of how each SSIS feature or process works; a tutorial that walks you through the process or technique; and a video lesson that demonstrates it. If you take full advantage of this comprehensive package, you will gain enough experience to tackle your first SSIS project with confidence. - SQL Server Integration Services 2008 (SSIS) builds on the revolutionary database product suite first introduced by Microsoft in 2005 and is a powerful tool for performing extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) operations essential to data warehousing
- If you're just learning SSIS, the step-by-step tutorials in this book and DVD training package will ready you to tackle your own first project
- Every lesson in the book is supplemented by instructional video on the DVD
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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Tame the SSIS beast... August 28, 2010
ewomack (MN USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some books make life easier. Without doubt, Knight's 24-Hour Trainer for SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) belongs in this category. When faced with the behemoth of SSIS, even the most stalwart developers may feel their knees shake and their intestines jiggle in a dance of anxiety. Fear not, this book vaporizes complexity and reduces SSIS' intimidating tool set down to comprehensible chunks.
Beginners, start here.
Ten sections cover everything from installation to SSIS package deployment. Even better, each of the 49 lessons deals with a single concept or tool. This approach allows mastery of one item before moving to new territory. Simpler actions such as connecting tasks on the control flow with precedence constraints build up to data transformations on the Data Flow tab. Soon things get more complex and tasks such as joining, aggregation, auditing and intriguing fuzzy logic transforms fill the pages. As the pages fly past, and they do fly, a solid understanding of SSIS' fundamentals emerges almost without realization. This book works.
So how does it work? Well, strangely, the book's greatest strength is also its greatest flaw. Each chapter begins with a textual description of the task or tool that often reads like instructions. However, the real step-by-step instructions appear later in the "Try It" section. This hands-on tends to repeat the content presented earlier. Though this seems pointlessly repetitious at first, this structure actually reinforces the content. By chapter 20, the impatient may find themselves skipping right to the "Try It" section. Don't. Read everything, the chapters remain short throughout. Plus, sometimes the "Try It" section contains less information than the lesson's introductory text. Perfectly flawed?
If that wasn't enough, rock solid, almost concrete-esque, reinforcement comes from the book's marketing hook: the DVD. This contains parallel video presentations for every lesson. When the text doesn't illuminate a tool's functionality, or something seems clear as coal stew, give the DVD a spin. Plus, these visual lessons often contain more information than the text. Definitely watch all of these.
Once again, beginners should start here.
This book will teach just about anyone to build simple SSIS packages. To get the most from the book use the 2008 version of SQL Server and download the AdventureWorks 2008 sample database. Look on the internet for instructions on how to install the latter since newer versions appear that may not match the book's queries. Plus, installing the 2008 database (not the LT or DW) takes a few tricks. In the worst case, improvise. Do all this and SSIS will reveal its ominous and almost medieval powers. Brace yourself.
Practical, fast, and useful June 27, 2010
Patrick E. (NH US)
I love this book. The chapters are short, concise, and each runs you through a specific SSIS task area. Most of the time you are "doing", not "reading about doing". By the time I was halfway through I was creating SSIS package for various purposes.
If you're looking to quickly learn SSIS, and you already have some general SQL Server experience, this is a great book that will get you up and running very quickly. Highly recommended.
Thumbs up for Microsoft April 26, 2010
Does Not Matter (MA, USA)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
As a tool SSIS is a complete nonsense: it is a toy tool (*) intended to solve hard real world problems, which are not solvable by toy tools by the very nature of these problems being hard.
For example any serious integration project written using perl (and backed up by c/c++ if necessary) will take at least order of magnitude less effort (and produce better results) over a normal life span of 10+ years expected for such projects.
However, SSIS (and DTS before) does keep people employed both on programming and book writing sides, so way to go, Redmond.
(*) if one cannot use some sort of human readable, diffable and editable flat files as a source - this is a surest sign that you are dealing with a toy tool.
Excellent book to start learning SSIS March 22, 2010
Ron (California)
This book really focuses on the basic things you in order to use SSIS. It was great to have videos showing exactly how to do the exercises when I got stuck (I wish other books had videos of their exercises). There is more to learn about SSIS than this book covers; but, this is a very good place to start
 Video Tutorial quality is bad! March 9, 2010
B. Sullivan (San Francisco, CA USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The resolution of the video tutorials is very bad! The screens can not be read unless the author is zooming in to a particular area. Why do so many tutorial videos suffer from this poor quality - very unprofessional.
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