Title: Conceptual Integration Lacking
Review: While this text does contain quite a bit of information about SSIS and its functionality, it does not do a good job of relating or building an overarching conceptual framework for understanding. Specifically, I appreciate a learning text that simultaneously teaches the "how to's" along with a vision of "why" things are done as they are. This latter consideration is extremely helpful when we leave the domain of canned examples and venture forth into the real world.I suspect that when a team of authors assembles a text, as in this case, we get the benefit of vertical expertise but miss out on the encapsulated/synthesized wisdom that a single author conveys as he/she walks us through a detailed technology tool.After 7 chapters in this text I switched to Microsoft Press': "SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, Step by Step" - for which I have written a more favorable Amazon review.
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