Kin M. Hui said
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.
C. M. MAN said
Read through the book and the samples really bad. The reader almost cannot like the samples to the book.
The samples name has never mentioned in the book.
The book has never instructed how to setup the sample Data Warehouse like AW_DW_AS_BASIC in chapter 3 and there is not in the readme file either.
I bought it is because not many SSIS book in market and just give a try.
Really it is not great as all.
MM
Ron Davis said
As I have grown to expect the WROX strategy of multiple authors has produced another mixed bag. I am sure they are all technically competent even expert but some do not communicate as well as others and it shows. Some of the chapters such as 10 on loading a Data Warehouse are excellent and some are poor or just a waste of paper.
Kimberly Talley said
This book has been a great resource for me. I am in the process of building a data warehouse and have been struggling with this. I have a lot of experience on the OLTP side of systems, but this book really helped get me up to speed on the data warehouse concepts and the ETL process.
The examples in this book really opened my eyes to the 'outside the box' uses for SSIS that I had not thought of.
The chapter on data warehousing is a great resource and is a reference I keep close by. There is also a great chapter on error and event handling. This is a very important component to ETL systems, but one I wasn't handling very well.
This book is a great addition to my reference library. I highly recommend this to anyone involved in ETL processing.
L. T. Blackford said
If you have a need to learn SSIS or to enhance your SSIS knowledge base this is the book for you.
Being a Sql Server BI consultant I have come across many opportunities that SSIS either solves or is part of the overall solution.
Therefore I have a need to be as profecient as possible in SSIS. This book is my bible for SSIS reference and problem solving.
In my opinion there is not a better book available today, that will not only help get you started in SSIS, but enable you to become a very effecient SSIS Guru.
This book walks you through the entire SSIS solution process. Package creation, Control Flow, Data Flow, Warehouse population stratagies, package tuning, etc. (You get the picture)
One of the issues I come across routinely is data scrubbing, i.e cleaning your input data. This is a difficult task for even a skilled practitioner.
There is a very good chapter in this book on the scripting task in SSIS which is where most of your data cleansing will take place, if needed.
This book will save you hours if not days of research in trying to solve all those issues you typically encounter when taking data from one platform or store to another entirely different
Data store and/or platform.
Well worth the price!
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