I'm excited to announce that my book will finally be available this month, on July 21st.
You can see more information about the book here:
http://www.samspublishing.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0672327813&rl=1
It's also available from Amazon.com here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672327813/ref=sr_11_1/104-2063177-2650333?redirect=true&%5Fencoding=UTF8
I tried to focus on the basics of Integration Services and give insight into the philosophy and inner workings so that readers could gain a better understanding of Integration Services from the perspective of those who developed the product. It's a sort of "inside out" approach. The book is nicely positioned with the other books available on Integration Services in that it deals more directly and closely with the product. My technical editor was Matt David, who some of you may know as the enormously talented and accurate software engineer behind the dataflow task and other portions of the product. I also received multiple insights and help from other members of the SSIS development team.
Here's a short list of some of the highlights:
- Many sample packages that show how to configure tasks and components.
- Insider stories about how the product was conceived and developed.
- Tips, tricks and gotchas
- Gradual introduction that begins with simple descriptions in the early chapters and gets progressively more advanced as you work your way to the last chapters
- Performance tuning the dataflow task
- Writing professional custom tasks
- Writing real world, reusable custom dataflow components
- Sample custom tasks including:
- Stock template task for starting your own tasks including stock task UI.
- Expression Evaluator task for evaluating expressions in workflow as well as assigning values to variables
- File encryption task
- Sample custom dataflow components including:
- JPG EXIF reader source
- Data profiler transformation
- ADO.Net ODBC and SQL Client Destinations
I hope you find the book helpful and that it increases your understanding of Integration Services and would love to hear from you directly any comments, feedback or suggestions you might have about the book.
Thank you,
K