About this product: This book will help you get past the initial learning curve quickly so that you can get started using SSIS to transform data, create a workflow, or maintain your SQL Server. Offering you hands-on guidance, you'll learn a new world of integration possibilities and be able to move away from scripting complex logic to programming tasks using a full-featured language.
What you will learn from this book
Ways to quickly move and transform data
How to configure every aspect of SSIS
How to interface SSIS with web services and XML
Techniques to scale the SSIS and make it more reliable
How to migrate DTS packages to SSIS
How to create your own custom tasks and user interfaces
How to create an application that interfaces with SSIS to manage the environment
A detailed usable case study for a complete ETL solution
Who this book is for
This book is for developers, DBAs, and users who are looking to program custom code in all of the .NET languages. It is expected that you know the basics of how to query the SQL Server and have some fundamental programming skills.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
About this product: As a practical guide for Integration Services ETL development, this book shows you ways to implement your ETL solution requirements from the data to the administration and everything in-between. Each chapter begins with a review of pertinent ETL concepts and moves into working those out into a design with multiple examples and related Integration Services features with the end goal of putting it all together to get a solution.
About this product: The Integration Services feature of Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 brings together data from diverse sources in a high-performance data integration platform, to enable users to work across multiple applications that may not have been designed to cooperate. In this book, Donald Farmer, Microsoft's Group Program Manager for SQL Server Integration Services, clearly explains how to build practical and useful scripts for this exciting new SQL Server 2005 feature. His systematic approach, friendly tutorials, and numerous examples are suitable for both developers and IT professionals alike. You'll learn how scripting in SQL Server Integration Services can enable you to easily add new, fully-integrated functionality to achieve your enterprise data integration needs.
This book takes a rational, no-nonsense approach in a compact guide - only 224 pages. The book is written to give you the basics...fast!
Technical Accuracy is assured by Ashvini Sharma, Development Lead, SQL Server Integration Services, Microsoft Corporation.
* Bonus Chapter: "Monitoring SSIS Performance with Scripts" * Bonus Chapter: "Accessing Web Services with SSIS Scripts" * Bonus Chapter: "Using SSIS as a Data Service" * Sample code for the examples in the book
About this product: More people are denied SSI and Social Security Disability than are allowed benefits the first time they apply. This includes children and adults. Appeals can take a year or more. In a simplified step by step guide Mike Davis gives disability applicants the crucial information they need to know and exactly what to do to make the best case the first time around. A former SSI and Social Security Disability Claims Examiner, the author has worked on over 4000 cases over a seven year period. "Too often I have had to deny a claim when I thought there was a genuine disability, but the case was not complete enough to render a favorable decision. What I have tried to do in this book is give the reader the information needed to present his or her case fully, accurately, and in the best possible light. I believe this will increase the chances of a favorable decision dramatically." Here is the inside scoop on what the decision makers are really looking for and how you can help them to get it.
About this product: Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, is one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, which depicts a court life whose drama and pathos is of Shakespearean proportions. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this first complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily preoccupations of a deeply intelligent and articulate woman. JaHyun Kim Haboush's accurate, fluid translation captures the intimate and expressive voice of this consummate storyteller. The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and of how the genre of autobiography fared in premodern times.
All medium to large companies have to deal with data being stored in a number of databases, spreadsheets and proprietary applications. Bringing all this data together into one system can be useful to analyzing the business; but can also be quite difficult to do. Integration Services is the next big bet in Microsoft's business intelligence lineup, providing you with true enterprise extract transform and load features (ETL).
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services concentrates on providing you with real world solutions to real world problems, giving you a head start on various projects. If you are only evaluating Integration Services, you'll be able to focus on the early chapters with the option of drilling down into details in the later chapters where some of the more complex concepts will be discussed in detail. The interesting sidebars peppered throughout the book provide insight into the processes, people and decisions that yielded the final IS product.
About this product: Sql Server Integration Services with the acronym SSIS is a comprehensive ETL tool that made its debut with SQL Server 2005. It is a tool tightly integrated with the Visual Studio 2005 having all the functionalities that its forerunner DTS (Data Transformation Services) had in SQL Server 2000. This does not mean that it is just an improvement over DTS but a product which is totally different with a vastly improved interface; an extensible architecture; an enlarged tool set; ease of integration with other SQL Server Tools such as Analysis Services; capable of supporting connectivity with third party databases and bringing into a central location many database management tasks.
About this product: Attorney Barbara Jackins' new book is a must have resource for parents of children with special needs and the professionals and advocates who assist parents. In an easy-to-read, conversational style, she covers the essential elements of SSI, guardianship, and estate planning when there is a child with a disability in the family.
Although some of the materials are specific to Massachusetts, most of the strategies she discusses are valid in any state. Don't live in Massachusetts? Then you can simply ignore the fine points about that state's guardianship laws and procedures. The rest of the book--her practical estate planning strategies and SSI pointers-- will get you on track no matter where you live.
You will find the information you need to:
Obtain SSI benefits for your son or daughter who is age 18 or older
Contribute to your adult sons or daughters financial support without reducing SSI
Understand the court process for guardianship, including what must be done if
your son or daughter takes any antipsychotic medication
Learn about the alternatives to guardianship
Protect your sons or daughters inheritance from being lost or mismanaged while assuring continued public benefits
Coordinate your life insurance and retirement assets with your overall estate plan
NAME.......SUE, the T. rex (named after the woman who found her!)
ADDRESS....The Field Museum (and now in her own CD-ROM!)
AGE........Older than anyone you know (by 67 million years!)
SIZE.......Large (as big as a hook and ladder fire truck!)
WEIGHT.....Heavy (weighs more than the biggest Indian elephant!)
TEETH......Sharp (and as big as your foot!)
HAT SIZE...Jumbo (her head is larger than your whole body!)
APPETITE...Enormous (eats her enemies -- and some friends too!)
Now kids can see SUE, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered, as she comes to life in I SEE SUE...the T. rex. Developed in collaboration with The Field Museum of Chicago -- SUE's home -- this animated CD-ROM game introduces children to the exciting world of SUE and her friends.
Playing against a friend or the computer, players match tiles to bring different dinosaurs to life. With one of four environments to choose from and dozens of dino facts to learn along the way, kids will have dinosaur-sized fun as they journey through prehistoric terrain in a race to be the first to see SUE.
FEATURES
HOURS OF GAME-PLAY encourage early learning skills, with different levels to challenge your child's abilities.
KIDS ARE INTRODUCED TO 7 CREATURES from SUE's world, each with special powers to help players win the game.
FUN FACTS about each dinosaur will capture your child's imagination.
KIDS MAGICALLY MORPH DINOSAURS to successfully navigate the different environments, teaching strategic problem-solving and reasoning skills.
CHILDREN WILL HAVE FUN PRINTING out pictures of their very own dinosaurs to color.
SUE'S WORLD -- the late Cretaceous Period in the Western United States -- comes vividly to life with authentic animation and atmospheric detail, including a treasure chest of information about SUE...the T. rex and her friends.
BONUS! Click on the special SUE button to see photos and to learn the real story about SUE...the T. rex...straight from the scientists of The Field Museum.
Create and Print Colorful Designs Curious George® Paint & Print Studio is an extremely powerful, full-featured program that will bring out the artist in any child. With over a thousand stamps, and dozens of canvases and backgrounds, children can create their own stories, books, pictures, games, puzzles and more -- all with the look of the original Curious George storybooks by Margret and H. A. Rey.
Features
Colorful, easy-to-use interface
Complete set of drawing, painting, and coloring tools
Over 1,000 stamps, including surprise animated stamps and dozens of borders
Over 40 canvases and settings
Dozens of templates for cards, invitations, signs, and fun craft projects
Full library of stamps of Curious George, his friends, and his world
System Requirements:
Windows®
Pentium 90 MHz or higher
Windows® 95 or 98
16MB RAM
2X CD-ROM drive
Windows compatible sound card
256 colors or higher display graphics capabilities
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