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A treasure!
A VERY interesting and informative book. The selections are given in Old Irish on one side of the page with the translation given on the opposite side, which is helpful when comparing the languages. It is filled with monks' prayers and songs as well as Early Irish legends and myths. A treasure for anyone interested in the langauge and culture of the early Irish! ... Read more

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This pastoral delight follows the amorous affairs of the banished Rosalind, who takes refuge in the Forest of Arden disguised as a young man. She falls in love with Orlando, but her disguise complicates matters, especially when Rosalind unwittingly attracts the shepherdess Phebe. ... Read more

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Bilingual workbook--6th edition (English/ Spanish) ... Read more

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Volume: 28Publisher: London : Simpkin Marshall, for the Irish Texts SocietyPublication date: 1933Subjects: Finn mac CumnaillNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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King Lear divides his kingdom between his three daughters, basing the portions, so he believes, on the depth of their love for him. This profoundly moving, nihilistic drama is one of Shakespeare's mightiest achievements and one of the greatest tragedies in world literature. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (34)

Great Book.
I purchased the expert one first, than I realized it was not want I wanted, this book was much better. I find it very useful to the work I was doing.

Worthy introduction to SSIS
I read the book, followed the examples.This was a worthy introduction to SSIS and gave me a good start on my new job writing ETLs.

There are typos, a few code errors. The writing can be uneven. Somehow I survived. You will too.

Half baked product
Yes, authors are very knowledgeable, but the book is very difficult to read and to learn SSIS.
I am DBA/ Data Warehousing / ETL developer with over 10 years in the field and had real trouble following the "story" and small print that dominates the book.WORX should really do a better job in editing and formatting the book. The code examples are very difficult to read and follow. No consistent presentation format. In many examples authors make statements and comment before presenting the problem. The whole book written in a "story" style and lacks structure and formatting to make it more readable. Many errors and WORX Forums for the book is no help. Problems and questions posted on Forum are neglected and not addressed. It is really a shame when a book with a lot of good info is so badly written and edited.

Very informative!
So far this book is great for basics. It gives a great overview of all the options you have to create a SSIS package. I had previously purchased the expert version because I had DTS experience and realized SSIS was totally different. So I bought the professional version and it's filled in a lot of gaps. It's also got nice tutorials at the end of the chapters that help you to create a basic SSIS package which is incredibly helpful for learning the new tools that are available.

Too many authors; too little coherence
I originally intended to give this book two (2) stars, just because I was hacked off at the terrible index, but the content is worth at least three stars.The problem is locating the specific content you need.

Example: User-defined package variables are often critical pieces of a SSIS package.Want to find out how to get/set package variable values from an Execute SQL Task?Well, you won't get anywhere trying to look up "Variables" in the index.Just when you think the text does not address this important issue, you browse the Execute SQL Task section and -- lo! -- there is an extended discussion on how to access package variables from SQL queries.But none of it is referenced by the "Variables" entry in the index.

Brian Knight, by all accounts, is a good writer who knows his material, but any book that has ten (!) authors can't help but display a variety of writing styles and competencies.The book is adequate as a learning tool, but not as a reference.If the publisher had been in less of a hurry to get to market, Mr. Knight might have been allowed to take on fewer collaborators and produced a more coherent book.And a more complete index.
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"Twelfth Night", first perforemd around 1600, probably at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, is the tale of separated brother and sister twins - Sebastian and Viola - and their love entanglements. It also offers rich comic colours of Sir Toby Belch, Malvolio and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. ... Read more

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Not for Visually Impaired
This review is simply referring to the format. This is not a Large Print edition for use by someone with a visual impairment, the text is standard size.

User-friendly edition
Includes photos from multiple productions. Eye-friendly type-face. Plenty of room for notes. Useful suggestions for classroom involvement.

No surprises here...
What can I say? I love Shakespeare! Cliff's Complete is fabulous for those of us in a new love affair with Shakespeare. Commentary and side notes along the way make it very understandable. Kenneth Branaugh's film and BBC audio books lend subtle interpretation which is very helpful as well.

What You Will
Twelfth Night or What You Will is the story of a brother and sister, twins, who are shipwrecked and each assume the other sibling has died.Viola, the sister, takes on her brother's appearance in order to serve the Duke of Illyria, Orsino.Disguised as a man, Viola falls in love with Orsino, but Orsino is in love with the countess Olivia and sends Viola in his stead to woo Olivia for himself.This is Shakespearean comedy, so naturally, Olivia falls in love with Viola, believing her to be a man.More confusion ensues when Viola's twin brother Sebastian enters the action of the play and is mistaken for the man his sister has been pretending to be.

Twelfth Night is an amusing, if somewhat formulaic, comedy that is both endearing at times and disturbing at others.It leaves the reading wondering what to think.More than likely, this is exactly what Mr. Shakespeare intended.

The Cambridge School Shakespeare edition of Twelfth Night is obviously geared towards students, particularly theater and drama students as opposed to literature students. The text of the play is shown on one page while the previous, facing page describes the action of the play in addition to suggesting exercises to ascertain how each particular section could be played.My favorite part about this edition is the inclusion of all the photos, especially the photos showing how different productions handled the same scene.Personally, I prefer more in depth discussion about Shakespeare's plays than this edition offers, but it is probably ideal for a high school student or theater student studying Shakespeare.

Good, But Flawed
Many of you probably recall this play as the one Shakespeare began to write at the end of "Shakespeare In Love." As far as this movie goes, Shakespeare was to write something where love triumphed rather than failing as it did in "Romeo and Juliet." This comedy is often hailed as the best, but there are reasons I can not place it on the same level as "The Comedy of Errors," "The Merchant of Venice," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "As You Like It," or others.

We meet Orsino the Duke who is love with Olivia. But Olivia chooses to avoid men. (She never quite got over the death of her brother and father.) We also meet Viola. She has survived a shipwreck but fears her brother Sebastian has died in the wreck. Fearful of being raped, she disguises herself as a man, and enters Orsino's service under the alias Cesario.

Shakespeare then introduces us to characters of a subplot. (Maria, Toby, and Andrew) They are planning a practical joke on Malvolio. Moving on, Orsino asks Viola/Cesario to woo Olivia for him. This is of course hard for her, since she loves the Duke, but she proceeds. To add to her problems, Olivia falls in love with her!

Later, we see that Viola's brother Sebastian has survived and we meet Antonio. Antonio is wanted in the area for theft, but his touching loyalty will not allow him to abandon Sebastian. There is a comical scene where Orsino has a man to man talk with Viola/Cesario.

Now here we come to a part I have a problem with. Maria, Andrew, and Toby plan an over the top practical joke on Malvolio. I find this to be beneath the comedy that is caused by human misunderstanding such as in "The Comedy of Errors."

Moving on, Toby pretends to want to try to stop a fight between Andrew and Viola/Cesario but keeps prompting the fight as well. Antonio mistakes Viola for Sebastian and saves her. But I have another problem here. Viola watches Antonio get arrested after he saved her, and she allows him to be taken to prison. Certainly she was close enough to the Duke to ask for this man who had been helpful to be released. (And she knows she was mistaken for her brother Sebastian!)

Eventually the errors of the day are sorted out when Sebastian comes on the screen married to Olivia. And Shakespeare allows us to infer that Antonio will not be punished. And of course Malvolio comes on stage screaming for revenge over what he feels he has suffered.

It is a good play with intertwined plots, comedy, and enough tragic elements to make it real. But there are some flaws that prevent me from placing this on the same level as "As You Like It," "Merchant of Venice," "Comedy of Errors," and some others. ... Read more

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'Every spy who was shot in Cork was buried so that nothing was known about them. They just disappeared.' These are the words of an IRA commander recalling the War of Independence in Cork city. The Year of Disappearances examines this claim and others like it. It uncovers a web of suspicion and paranoia that led to scores of men and boys, mostly Protestants, being abducted from their homes before being executed as 'enemies of the Republic' and their bodies buried. While some of this took place during the War of Independence, most of it happened the following year, during the so-called 'Cork Republic'. The net result was to change the demographic of the south-eastern corner of the city for ever, with hundreds of families fleeing and up to fifty individuals buried in unmarked graves in surrounding areas. Using a wide range of previously untapped sources, Murphy shines new light on one of the darker episodes of twentieth-century Irish history. ... Read more