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Summary: The best information source
Review: An informative and comprehensive book.
A lot of realistic examples and suggestions that help to
solve complex and everyday SQL problems quickly.
I was able to make a database deployment process easier and faster using this book solution. One of the best book on the market for the SQL Server developers of all levels.
Rating:
Summary: The best information source
Review: An informative and comprehensive book.
A lot of realistic examples and suggestions that help to
solve complex and everyday SQL problems quickly.
I was able to make a database deployment process easier and faster using this book solution. One of the best book on the market for the SQL Server developers of all levels.
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Summary: Good value - TSQL book and SQLXML book in one
Review: Easy to understand; down to earth.
Everything that you need for stored procedure development - from naming conventions to methods to deploy changes in production.
Additional software on uathors web site for code management.
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Summary: Great resource for SQL/XML
Review: Extremely helpful for SQL/XML. Great examples. Very simple to understand. Author has an interative way of writing. Last 4 chapters are a must read for any SQL developer.
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Summary: Helps me earn my living!
Review: I am actually a BizTalk Server Developer but need frequent access to SQL Server data, preferably in XML. This great book has helped me jump over to writing stored procedures with being an SQL guru. It addresses things in a well organized way and saved me the cost of the book on Day 1. I like Dejan and appreciate his efforts.
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Summary: More than Just Stored Procedures!
Review: If you write or maintain apps that use SQL Server or train people to do this, this book is a "must have"! Not just stored procedures, but triggers, user-defined functions, XML and more. Sunderic includes not only "how", but "why and why not". Several ways to accomplish a given task are described, with pro's and con's for each. It's an INTERESTING book just to browse!
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Summary: More than Just Stored Procedures!
Review: If you write or maintain apps that use SQL Server or train people to do this, this book is a "must have"! Not just stored procedures, but triggers, user-defined functions, XML and more. Sunderic includes not only "how", but "why and why not". Several ways to accomplish a given task are described, with pro's and con's for each. It's an INTERESTING book just to browse!
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Summary: Lucid and thorough -- VERY worthwhile
Review: It bothers me that many of the best books on the latest Microsoft technology (.Net, SQL Server) are written by non-native-English speakers. I am amazed by the quality of writing by Francesco Balena and Dino Esposito, and now I would add Dejan Sunderic to my list of favorite authors. This book is beautifully lucid, broad in scope, and thorough. If you need access to an intelligent treatment of Transact-SQL in its various applications (stored procedures, triggers, XML, etc.), you should seriously consider this book. Your money and time would be well spent!
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Summary: Lucid and thorough -- VERY worthwhile
Review: It bothers me that many of the best books on the latest Microsoft technology (.Net, SQL Server) are written by non-native-English speakers. I am amazed by the quality of writing by Francesco Balena and Dino Esposito, and now I would add Dejan Sunderic to my list of favorite authors. This book is beautifully lucid, broad in scope, and thorough. If you need access to an intelligent treatment of Transact-SQL in its various applications (stored procedures, triggers, XML, etc.), you should seriously consider this book. Your money and time would be well spent!
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Summary: Disapointed reader
Review: My choice of this book was based on the reviews written here. After reading the book i wonder if the reviewers actually read the book. It is presented as book that should supply the reader with essential skills on programming stored procedures and using the ms sql 2000 server for XML output and .NET platform integration. But it is nothing more then a purely written book, that has more to say about visual inter Dev then visual studio.net ore visul studio 2003. Beside that it also describes avanced topics in general terms of no use to the developer, that wants to get the job done propperly. This is evident to everybody that actually read the book: As the subjects get more interesting - and complicated- the examples grows rapidly while the explainations scrimp to af few lines. The writter also left out basic commands as 'ref' and 'out' on parameters, which makes me wonder what else he left out. He also tries to give idees on how to develop in a distributed environment, but leaves out every important pitfall, that one has to be aware of in a multi processor environment. I cant imagine a distributed system where where every db runs on a server with only one processor - the system will be way to expensive, read your db lincences and you will know why. All togehter i got the impression that the writter pieced the book together from readings that didn't give him the sufficient knowledge to complete this book in a propper way. It is a waste of my time and money.
I'am sorry about my english - I'am in a hurry and pissed off.
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