Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (Data Transformation Services) (Programmer to Programmer)Mark Chaffin,Brian Knight,Todd Robinson | 2000-07-14 00:00:00 | Wrox | 888 | Databases
DTS (Data Transformation Services) helps you create a transactional system to load and transform your data from and to a wide variety of sources. SQL Server DTS was introduced in the release of SQL Server 7.0; SQL Server 2000 sees the functionality and power of this outstanding and incredibly useful tool greatly increased. DTS can be used to maximum effect in data-driven applications, offering rapid and effective solutions to a wide range of common problems.
Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS provides a complete introduction to DTS fundamentals and architecture before exploring the more complex data transformations involved in moving data between different servers, applications, and providers. The book then focuses on DTS programming via the DTS object model, enabling developers to incorporate custom transformations and reporting capabilities into their applications. Advanced topics are explained including error handling, dynamic data loading, and data warehouses. With code and case studies, this book gives the reader a complete picture of how to use DTS to its fullest potential.
Who is this book for?
This book is principally aimed at database programmers and administrators who have a working knowledge of SQL Server, and who wish to take DTS beyond its most basic level and tailor it to their needs. It will also appeal to managers and project managers who want to gain an understanding of DTS and how it could benefit their businesses.
What does this book cover?
* A detailed explanation of the seventeen principal DTS tasks
* Connecting to, querying, and converting heterogeneous data
* Dynamic configuration of your DTS packages
* Enhancing your DTS packages with VBScript and Visual Basic
* Writing your own custom tasks
* Using DTS in a data-warehousing environment
* Employing DTS in other applications
A lot of corporate databases are what's behind the Internet revolution.
Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS gives DBAs and programmers a handy guide to getting the most out of the Data Transformation Services (DTS)--a flexible set of tools that work on a wide variety of databases--that are available in SQL Server 2000.
The hands-on focus of the book makes it a win for readers of all backgrounds. While online help for DTS is not always easy to decipher, this book remedies the situation with plenty of screen shots of all of the major tools in action. Early sections examine nearly two dozen built-in tasks or functions in DTS--from the obvious (copying data from one database to another) to the more esoteric (sending files via FTP within DTS).
A gentle introduction to using VBScript and ActiveX objects gets at the DTS object model to design "custom tasks." By using this approach, you can automate and transform data reliably among different formats, including mainframe and Office documents. (Specific tips guide you in working with DB2 and Excel data.) A standout section looks at "linking" servers and querying data from heterogeneous sources.
You also learn how to build a Web front end (using ASPs) for a data application that uses SQL-DMO APIs to automate database tasks through a browser. Later, there's an excellent tutorial on data warehousing, done the Microsoft way--from the basics of the star, snowflake, and hybrid fact tables for a data mart to setting up and loading the data using DTS, and then running the database with Microsoft Analysis Services. The book closes with a thorough reference section that lists the objects and methods in the DTS object model.
Whether you're performing normal database administration or setting up a data warehouse--or you just want to work with data more effectively within your applications--Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS gives you all of the information that you need to be productive with a powerful (and sometimes overlooked) set of database tools and components. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered:
- Introduction to Data Transformation Services (DTS)
- Survey of DTS wizards and tools
- The Import/Export Wizard
- The Copy Database Wizard
- The DTS Designer
- Survey of automated tasks in SQL Server 2000, including the Bulk Insert, Execute SQL, Copy SQL Server Objects, and Transfer Databases tasks
- The Multiphase Data Pump
- Using a Data Driven Query (DDQ)
- The FTP Task
- The Execute Package Task
- The Message Queue Task
- Advanced package options
- General package properties
- Transfer Data Task options
- Data scrubbing
- Working with heterogeneous data (using linked servers from mainframe and legacy servers)
- Tips for converting Excel and DB2 data
- DTS ActiveX Script basics
- Quick tutorial for VBScript syntax
- The DTS Object Model
- File management with the FileSystemObject object
- DTS security issues
- Meta Data Services
- Backing up databases
- DTS error handling
- Building custom tasks in DTS
- Star, snowflake, and hybrid designs for data warehouses
- Extract, Transformation, and Load (ETL) with DTS
- Microsoft Analysis Services
- Creating Web front ends for DTS applications
- Reference to the DTS and ADO object models
- Reference to essential VB functions and keywords
- Microsoft Scripting Run-Time Reference
Reviews 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
Reviews 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.
Reviews 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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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.
Reviews
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.
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