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Summary: Very Good
Review: My company just started using DTS and I needed to learn the technology rapidly. While many Wrox books are 1000+ pages, this book is actually 683. The rest of the pages are devoted to appendixes on the object models.Another strength of this book is the construction of the chapters. After the introductory 2 chapters, the rest can be read in any order or skipped. This book covered many diverse topics, including data warehouse loading, the DTS object model, VBScript, and even using VB to build new custom tasks. The book is primarily focused on DBAs. Therefore, there is more coverage of VBScript and COM object development than a programmer would require. However, given the strong chapter cohesiveness, it is easy to skip this material without missing important information.
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Summary: I WISH MICROSOFT WOULD BE AS INFORMATIVE
Review: Other reviewers of this book have stated that this book is informative, but could be improved. The book is too verbose. On the other hand, where are you going to get the very useful information it contains? The other efforts to expose DTS, based on the book reviews, are worse. To make a long story short, if you want to learn most of what DTS can do and how to use DTS, buy this book. Microsoft are great at inventing better software but they are terribly inept at telling the world about it.
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Summary: The worst book in the world!
Review: Straight out of Microsoft's manuals, this book was obviously just a ploy for the authors to say "Look at me, I am published." Wrox let us down with this one. Horrible index's proved to be as fun as a proctology exam.
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Summary: Good; not quite reference-quality
Review: There are very few resources for DTS, so I bought this one to help me understand the programming models involved. I'm not thrilled with it, but it does explain the models very quickly and succinctly.
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Summary: Good; not quite reference-quality
Review: There are very few resources for DTS, so I bought this one to help me understand the programming models involved. I'm not thrilled with it, but it does explain the models very quickly and succinctly.
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Summary: Not detailed enough to be useful
Review: This book does a good job of explaining all the things about DTS you could have worked out yourself. However when it comes to anything more advanced like programming with the DTS object model (which is what I wanted the book for inthe first place) the information is very sparse and few examples are provided. If you want to do anything useful with DTS then don't buy this book. If however you just want to confirm in writing all the obvious features of the graphical interface (already written in the online documentation) then this is for you. An example of the type of irrelevant stuff which was clearly inserted in this book just to pad it out are the chapter and half dedicated to teaching vbscript from scratch (I suppose we should be grateful the authors didn't put in a description of the entire VB IDE when the got to the custom tasks chapter), and the 100 pages of index's at the back which give no more information then the SQL server books online. Wrox usually publish excellent technical books, this is a disappointment.
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Summary: Spectacular!
Review: This book has many positives with few negatives. The topics covered are diverse and extremely relevant. The book starts out with am overview of DTS and its wizard. It then covers the designer, the DTS COM object model, and even the interface required to build your own tasks to include in DTS. An unexpected and added benefit was its delineation between SQL 2000 and SQL 7 DTS functionality. This book can be reliably used as a reference for both environments. The only downside was the books length and the inclusion of extraneous material, such has how to load a data warehouse with DTS. However, as the chapters were well encapsulated, these areas could be skipped without missing core DTS information. It is still well worth the five stars.
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Summary: Worth buying.. cool tricks
Review: This book has realy some practical cool tricks.. Most of the Wrox books address verymuch current issues... Has good ETL framwork chapter.. most of the chapters are well written
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Summary: Practical
Review: This book is very much hands-on. Every component in SQL Server DTS is described step by step with examples. It also contains a chapter for helping out with error-handling, which in SQL-server can sometimes be be tricky since there's not much help in the tool itself. I sometime feel that I loose myself in some of the various examples when trying to learn the tool - maybe a book in color with arrows and color coding could have helped the confused beginner. Otherwise for a programmer used to her profession it contains a great deal of advice and guidance of how to use the tool properly.
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Summary: Mediocre book
Review: This book merely skims the surface of DTS. Enough details of DTS are not supplied. For instance there are a number of annoyances with DTS that must be avoided using workaround that are mentioned nowhere in this book. Also more complicated subjects of DTS are merely skimmed through. This book is not good for beginner nor for professionals.
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