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Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services is
Microsoft's powerful platform for building enterprise-level
data integration and data transformation solutions. It's a
powerful product, but it's also complex and can be confusing
if you don't have a clear map for the journey. Microsoft
SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Unleashed will be the only
book you'll need to harness the power that Integration
Services provides.
Through clear, concise explanations and
samples, you'll grasp a clear understanding of working in the
Integration Services environment, including how to set up stock
components, how to use the various designer features, and how to
gain practical knowledge on configuring, deploying, securing, and
managing packages. Sample packages are provided to reinforce the
discussion and quickly help you gain hands-on experience, and more
complex topics such as Data Flow Task internals and tuning,
advanced transformations, and writing custom components are all
illustrated in easy-to-understand graphics. In addition, there are
several custom tasks and transformations and two useful utilities
with full source code available for you to use and study, including
an ADO.NET destination, a text file encryption task, and a data
profiling transform.
Detailed information on:
Using the powerful Integration Services tools to create
solutions without the need to write lines of code Creating packages programmatically or developing custom tasks
via the Integration Services object Building robust packages to solve common requirements Securing packages for different environments Using often overlooked or unknown platform features Setting up all the stock components, including data flow
components, tasks, Foreach enumerators, connection managers, and
log providers Writing robust and useful custom tasks Building packages that seamlessly deploy to other
environments Writing custom data flow adapters and transforms Using script tasks and components Easily modifying configurations for multiple packages
simultaneously Writing a Task UI that looks just like the stock tasks Tapping into the power of Integration Services for accessing
heterogeneous data sources Using expressions to make packages more responsive to the
environment Migrating your DTS packages with no stress
Kirk Haselden is the Group Program Manager
for the Microsoft Master Data Management product forthcoming in the
next wave of Office SharePoint Services and owns the long term
strategy, vision, planning, and development of that product. Kirk
has been with Microsoft for 12 years in various groups including
Hardware, eHome, Connected Home, SQL Server, and Office Business
Platform. He was the development manager for Integration Services
and the primary designer for the runtime, as well as many of the
tasks. He has written a number of articles for SQL Server Magazine,
speaks regularly at industry events, writes profusely on his
personal and MSDN blog, and holds 35 patents or patents
pending.
Category: Microsoft SQL Server
Covers: Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Integration Services
User
Level: Intermediate—Advanced
$59.99 US / $71.99 CAN / £38.99 Net
UK Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionMicrosoft SQL Server Integration Services is Microsoft’s powerful platform for building enterprise-level data integration and data transformation solutions. It’s a powerful product, but it’s also complex and can be confusing if you don’t have a clear map for the journey. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Unleashed will be the only book you’ll need to harness the power that Integration Services provides. Through clear, concise explanations and samples, you’ll grasp a clear understanding of working in the Integration Services environment, including how to set up stock components, how to use the various designer features, and how to gain practical knowledge on configuring, deploying, securing, and managing packages. Sample packages are provided to reinforce the discussion and quickly help you gain hands-on experience, and more complex topics such as Data Flow Task internals and tuning, advanced transformations, and writing custom components are all illustrated in easy-to-understand graphics. In addition, there are several custom tasks and transformations and two useful utilities with full source code available for you to use and study, including an ADO.NET destination, a text file encryption task, and a data profiling transform. Detailed information on: - Using the powerful Integration Services tools to create solutions without the need to write lines of code
- Creating packages programmatically or developing custom tasks via the Integration Services object
- Building robust packages to solve common requirements
- Securing packages for different environments
- Using often overlooked or unknown platform features
- Setting up all the stock components, including data flow components, tasks, Foreach enumerators, connection managers, and log providers
- Writing robust and useful custom tasks
- Building packages that seamlessly deploy to other environments
- Writing custom data flow adapters and transforms
- Using script tasks and components
- Easily modifying configurations for multiple packages simultaneously
- Writing a Task UI that looks just like the stock tasks
- Tapping into the power of Integration Services for accessing heterogeneous data sources
- Using expressions to make packages more responsive to the environment
- Migrating your DTS packages with no stress
Kirk Haselden is the Group Program Manager for the Microsoft Master Data Management product forthcoming in the next wave of Office SharePoint Services and owns the long term strategy, vision, planning, and development of that product. Kirk has been with Microsoft for 12 years in various groups including Hardware, eHome, Connected Home, SQL Server, and Office Business Platform. He was the development manager for Integration Services and the primary designer for the runtime, as well as many of the tasks. He has written a number of articles for SQL Server Magazine, speaks regularly at industry events, writes profusely on his personal and MSDN blog, and holds 35 patents or patents pending. Category: Microsoft SQL Server Covers: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services User Level: Intermediate—Advanced $59.99 US / $71.99 CAN / £38.99 Net UK |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 1 reviews. simplifies SQL Server [somewhat], 2009-02-25 Reviewer rating: There's a small irony here. As Microsoft has vastly built up its SQL Server, the complexity of understanding and using it has concomitantly risen. Which in turn has led to the features discussed at length in the book. These broadly try to help you grasp the many parts of SQL Server. But the very heft of the book suggests that things are still non-trivial.
One message across the chapters is that the task user interfaces are as similar as can be, to ease learning. There are also various connection managers that handle reading or connecting to data of different formats, or to different types of data servers. So you don't waste your time on low level tasks of "impedance matching". At the simplest level, there is a Flat File Connection Manager, for reading a flat file of tabular data. This might be CSV or fixed width. Other connection managers go out on the network to get ftp files, or files with an HTTP address.
The amount of actual programming has been deliberately minimised. This is another pervasive theme of the book. To the extent that you do have to [or want to] program, it is at the scripting level. The example scripts do not seem difficult, but this opinion may vary as a function of your background.
Potentially the highest value aspects of the Integration Services concern Business Intelligence. This term is used in various places throughout the book, which does advise you that the term spans a "broad and deep field". Essentially, think of it as Artificial Intelligence in a business analysis context. Be aware that the BI aspects are very rudimentary. [Don't get your hopes up.] There are some neat little tools, like a Slowly Changing Dimension Wizard and data cleansers. Useful, and it's good that Integration Services has them. But they handle relatively low level issues. |
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