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Summary: Kelvin Meeks
Review: A very useful text for my team. Very good coverage of ADO for both Windows and Web application development. Somewhat light on the discussion of XML capabilities and MTS functionality.
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Summary: Kelvin Meeks
Review: A very useful text for my team. Very good coverage of ADO for both Windows and Web application development. Somewhat light on the discussion of XML capabilities and MTS functionality.
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Summary: SQL Server 2000 Developer's Guide
Review: As a first time user of SQL 2000, this book has been a wonderful tool for myself and my co-workers. We support and manage a complex database management application and SQL Developer's Guide has provided us with clear examples and answers to some very complicated questions. It is clearly written and well organized. It is a great value and anyone working on SQL 2000 should own one!
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Summary: SQL Server 2000 Developer's Guide
Review: As a first time user of SQL 2000, this book has been a wonderful tool for myself and my co-workers. We support and manage a complex database management application and SQL Developer's Guide has provided us with clear examples and answers to some very complicated questions. It is clearly written and well organized. It is a great value and anyone working on SQL 2000 should own one!
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Summary: So simple
Review: Excelent book. Clear explanations,cover all areas,full with examples,error free.This book is writen from developers for developers.Not for absoulte begginers,this book goes in advanced topics very fast.Before to notice, you will start to write advanced queries,triggers...DML and DDL are explainded so clear,they look so simple now,AFTER this book... Highly recomended!!
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Summary: If you could only buy one book, this would be it...
Review: Excellent. Paul Conte and Mike Otey are well known in the Midrange AS/400 world for their concise, no-nonsense approach to programming the AS/400 in a variety of languages(i.e. C, RPG, SQL/400, etc.). Here, in the SQL Server world, starting with "SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide", and now for SQL Server 2000, they apply the same style and manner and succeed admirably. The book is chock-full of examples, and performance tips, and even includes a SQL primer! They leave no stone unturned, and cover every aspect of SQL DDL, DML, and T-SQL. Lastly, their coverage of OLEDB/ADO and XML completes the picture. As I said, if you could only buy one book on SQL Server 2000, this is the one to buy!
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Summary: If you could only buy one book, this would be it...
Review: Excellent. Paul Conte and Mike Otey are well known in the Midrange AS/400 world for their concise, no-nonsense approach to programming the AS/400 in a variety of languages(i.e. C, RPG, SQL/400, etc.). Here, in the SQL Server world, starting with "SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide", and now for SQL Server 2000, they apply the same style and manner and succeed admirably. The book is chock-full of examples, and performance tips, and even includes a SQL primer! They leave no stone unturned, and cover every aspect of SQL DDL, DML, and T-SQL. Lastly, their coverage of OLEDB/ADO and XML completes the picture. As I said, if you could only buy one book on SQL Server 2000, this is the one to buy!
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Summary: For Experienced Programmers
Review: First of all, let me say that this book is not meant for End-Users, Administrators or Analysts. It is strictly for Developers and Programmers and does not cover the SQL Server 2000's interface, nor its various tools.This book does contains an in-depth look at SQL Server programming, including Stored Procedures, Cursors, Triggers and ADO. It covers plenty of programming topics and issues, but does not dive into much detail about certain topics that deserve more attention. Also it lacks examples (specifically data output examples) and screen-shots. Other than that, it is a good book to have, but I would not recommend it to novice programmers. I do however, recommend SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example, which covers a narrower range of topics, but in a lot more detail.
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Summary: Full subject reference with succinct, to the point practices
Review: I found this book to be an excellent resource in understanding the proper methods for deploying SQL Server 2000 in the development of applications. The orientation of the material is to frame the subject matter in a concise, meaningful conceptual overview and then to step you through clearly written sequence of techniques for doing the work. Along the way, as the writers uncover key issues and choices in the methods, they state perferred paths through the thicket of options. You get the benefit of experience and confidence in their reporting because they have included a CD of the code they have used in the book. The book is host to all the subjects a developer using this software requires -- from the Transact-sql query language and application interface coding to management of applications. Older programming standards for interfacing an application with SQL Server are given thorough coverage and will help preserve continuity in coding made previously with earlier versions of SQLServer. At the same time, the new Microsoft initaitives in ADO are given in depth treatment as well.
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Summary: One-stop-shop for SQL 2000
Review: I owned the predecessor to this book, the SQL Server 7 Developer's Guide, and found it very useful. It was so useful, in fact, that when I loaned it to a colleague, I had to practically wrestle it away from him to get it back! This is a great, HUGE, and even more useful update to the SQL Server 7 book, and it's already proven invaluable. The sample code on the CD has already helped me on a current project. I highly recommend this book!
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