From a person who has never worked with DTS Packages at all, this book covers the right topics that you need in order to learn how to build and use them. The book starts out by giving a general overview of the problems that many businesses face today with data coming from multiple sources. I can’t think of a client that I have worked for who has been around for a while that doesn't have redundant data in various systems. DTS is a tool that all developers should become familiar at one point.

The book covers the topics that are necessary for using DTS and it is very lab like. It does a good job with building upon examples that you have previously completed. I do think that it goes a little overboard with the pictures and redundant text. If an example presented a procedure on how to do something, the rest of the book shouldn’t have to present it all over again each time something is built upon it.

Overall the book is well written and it does provide the information in a step by step manner. So if you're looking for a reference manual, this isn't the book. If you want a book to hold your hand as you go through the examples, this is it.