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"Very Good Book for DTS", This book clearly explains what DTS Package is ,about Datawarehousing and some conceopts about SQL Server Security...I liked this book very much and helped me a lot for my project

"Forget about this.", Expect to see "foobar","Hello world", "The time is blah blah blah" and all that useless examples. This book is entitled "Professional" SQL Server 2000 DTS but you will end up getting (chicken) scratch on the surface: it tells you little about everything. Good only if you are a in the management, it will make you sound like you know what you are talking about. if you are a developer, better off find something else.

"Not worth it", 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.

"a nice laid out wrox book", I have used dts for a long time but only got to grips with the
dts deseigner recently. This is book is very good for the
dba who has never tried manipulating dts packages.
Good job by the authors.

"a nice laid out wrox book", I have used dts for a long time but only got to grips with the
dts deseigner recently. This is book is very good for the
dba who has never tried manipulating dts packages.
Good job by the authors.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Not Enough", 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.

"Preliminary Review", I have just started working through this book and I am already frustrated. This is one disorganized book. The authors like to jump around a lot. When they are explaining a concept (exporting data using a wizard), they jump to a different topic right in the middle and come back to the original thread may be a couple of pages later. This is extremely dis-orienting since you are trying to follow along with the wizard.

I will post a complete review later.

"Fantastic Beginning DTS Reference", I'm a new DBA and an ex-ASP developer. When I found myself needing to import flat files exported from an AS400 into a new SQL Server 2K database, I turned to this book for guidance. I'm glad I did.

I've used the DTS wizard a million times, and I thought I knew DTS's capabilities. I had no idea it was as powerful as it is. Due to the usual downtime the first week of a new job, I was able to run through every example in the first four chapters. All worked flawlessly and were extremely enlightening.

The first 4 chapters essentially explain the DTS Designer (very different and more powerful than the wizard) and the 17 built in tasks that DTS can perform. By the end of the week, I was importing data from all over the place, scrubbing it with VBScript built into the job, and capturing any errors in logs.

The remaining chapters deal with more specialized topics, and I expect to refer to them as needed. There is a very good introduction to VBScripting for those that might need the basics or just a syntax reference. Other topics include creating custom tasks, error handling, and data warehouse loading.

However, if you are looking for a guide to using the DTS object model, this is not the text for you. The book limits its scope to the GUI. It provides an excellent introduction to using DTS, and I know that the jobs I have been able to create have saved me a ton of time at work, even if they are heavily dependant on embedded VBScript.

Four Stars

-HawkeyeGK

"No rush to judgment", I am new to DTS and VB. This book was a big help in the early chapters. It got me using the basic DTS features. Now I'm up to page 308 and have just spent 1-1/2 hours keying in a VB example. It doesn't work. I went over the code; I've keyed it in as it is shown and it still doesn't work. I do not have the expertise to troubleshoot it. I'm beginning to have my doubts about the next 800 pages. Sorry, guys. Before you publish you should try this stuff out on real world users.

"I WISH MICROSOFT WOULD BE AS INFORMATIVE", 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.