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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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Summary: Not Enough
Review: This book was a disappointment. Mostly it shows how to create packages using the Enterprise Mgr interface. I don't need a book to do that. Right now I am coding a VB app using DTS, and this book was definitely not enough. This is a beginner book, introductory in nature. There is an Object reference, but I can see that in the Object Browser. The examples are simplistic and not real-world. The examples on the SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit are better. I am moving large amounts of data data and have to deal with permissions, constraints, dependency tables -- none of this is covered. You can manipulate the object model thousands of ways; without any guidance on these advanced topics (not covered by MSDN) you are adrift... and your packages will fail every time.
If you are a programmer, don't bother with this one.
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Summary: All you ever needed to know about DTS
Review: This is a brilliant book by Wrox. I have always wondered about DTS in the past and knew it had been expanded. And this book just develops so many great ideas using the new technology.I found several of the examples really good, and all were easy to follow. I loved the last example in Chapter 8, the Dynamic Configuration of Package Objects. Neat idea.
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Summary: Very detailed book.
Review: This is a very detailed book and answered some specific questions that I had on DTS. Especially in the OLAP portion. Very good level to get you started then moves into the lower level.
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Summary: Acceptable, but just barely...
Review: This is not a very good book on DTS, but, unfortunately, it was the best that I could find. If anyone out there knows of a better book, please let the rest of us know. The book is not logically organized - probably the result of having several authors. And, I have to agree with the reviewer that stated the index is incomplete. I have on many occasions gone to the index only to find that I have to leaf through the book looking for an item that I saw before but can't remember its exact location. The book is only slightly more helpful that SQL Server's Books Online, but that's only because it's in hard copy. The most useful part of the book to me has been Appendix C, which contains Visual Basic Functions and Keywords. I wouldn't go so far as to recommend not buying this book, but you should lower your expectations a bit. Frankly, WROX usually does better than this. I hope they are very busily revising this book as I write this review. Good luck learning DTS, it's not as easy as it might seem at first glance.
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Summary: Not what I'd expect from Wrox
Review: Unfortunately this book fell well below my expectations. The index is incomplete, making it hard to find information. The examples as given probably won't work: no mention is given to fairly major problems like dealing with ActiveX scripts running in different threads. Very little useful guidance is given, especially to help get round DTS's flaws. And when I went for code it wasn't at the website. Wrox did sent me the code pretty quick when emailed for it.
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Summary: The DTS Bible.
Review: We've purchased three of these after attending a DTS class for our developers and DBAs. It's a little rudamentary in some of the programming concepts but we bought it more for the DTS functionality end. I loved the case study and the error-handling section was extremely helpful. The book introduces you well to DTS and then proceeds quickly into much more advanced topics. If you don't know programming, the VBScript chapter may be useful. There's a handy reference in the back also to the DTS object model.
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Summary: A Good Manual on DTS
Review: When this book first came out, I grabbed it the first time I saw it on the shelf. We had been using DTS pretty heavily where I worked, but it was all basic stuff. I wanted to dig a little deeper than the basic stuff we were doing and I found this book to be great. I know the reviews on this one are all over the map. However, I found this book to be very useful. If you're doing anything with DTS, you'll want to look through this one.
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Summary: A Good Manual on DTS
Review: When this book first came out, I grabbed it the first time I saw it on the shelf. We had been using DTS pretty heavily where I worked, but it was all basic stuff. I wanted to dig a little deeper than the basic stuff we were doing and I found this book to be great. I know the reviews on this one are all over the map. However, I found this book to be very useful. If you're doing anything with DTS, you'll want to look through this one.
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Summary: Not worth it
Review: You'd think an 880-page tome from Wrox on something as specialised as DTS would pretty much have you covered anytime you need a reliable DTS reference to get you through your Data Transformation tasks. I have found myself looking to this book for guidance on many occasions during development, only to be consistently disappointed. For a start, the Index is downright useless, since I was never able to find words I would expected to, such as delimiter, lineage, disconnected edit, parameterised query, identity insert, but it has an entry for DNS?? (which, btw refers to a 3-line explanation of URLs when using Internet Explorer!) The book is so large mainly because every other page is a GUI snapshot, most of which are unnecessary. I don't need a whole page dedicated to the "Syntax check was successful" message box. I give it 3 stars because they do a good job of at least mentioning probably every concept that relates to DTS, but coverage is mostly shallow and out of focus. There does seem to be heavy emphasis on data warehousing, which I haven't used so far, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt regarding coverage there. Overall I still think I might find something good when I need a reference but so far I have mostly found SQL Books Online equally, or sometimes more useful.
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