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Great Demo!: How To Create And Execute Stunning Software
Demonstrations The book is simple, but don't let that fool
you. In an age where common sense is not so common, Peter Cohan
has create a book that is clear, concise and entertaining --nice
hat trick-- on how to address what appears to be polar
opposites; Helping prospective customers and technical selling
of products. While it appears to be a simple how-to book, weaved within the pages is a simple message we often forget. Solve the customers problems and you have a sale. Peter addressed the process to ensure that a demo addresses customer's needs as opposed to just showing flash. Peter has made this message deployable for the Sales and Applications Engineers that struggle with trying escape the feature parade demos we've all been tortured with. Bravo! |
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| Most of the Wrox collection of books I
have I would rate fairly high on the star scale. Knight's
24-hour trainer is not different in that assessment. The book
purports itself as a beginner to productive user of SQL Server
2009 Integration Services in 24 hours. That's a tall order given the nature and scope of Integration Servers. I have worked with various members of the SQL Dev team from time to time and they confide, that this seems to be the one area that developers lag in their knowledge. Which is a shame, because getting the data into and out of a database is one of the most critical tasks. I approached reading the book with an open mind as I was, like others, limited in my knowledge and use of Integration Services. The book is well laid out starting out with discussing how Integration Services is structured. Following are a series of small focused lessons and exercises to take one through the key features and utilities within SSIS. This book will not make you the ultimate guru on SSIS, however it will as advertised: 1) Give you a solid understand of how SSIS is structured and operates 2) Provides you enough training to meet the 80/20 rule head-on making you productive while your reading the text. I would strongly recommend the book to anyone that works with SQL Server Knight's 24-Hour Trainer: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Knights 24 Hour Trainer) |
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