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Summary: Critical reference to understanding and using TSQL
Review: Excellent book, comprehensive coverage of the material and well written - not a five minute read. Skipping around as opposed to a cover-to-cover approach can be done but continuity is lost as well as some dependent ideas. Required for every SQL Server consultant.
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Summary: sps and new fetures
Review: I recommend this book to database and application developers interested in a very readable and informative text detailing stored procedures and most of the new features introduced in SQL Server 2000: User-Defined Functions, Indexed Views, INSTEAD OF triggers, XML, along with the new data types (bigint, table variables, and sql-variant). As omeone noted beforethe new functions SCOPE_IDENTITY() and IDENT_CURRENT() are not covered in a book but only on the book's web site.
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Summary: For Any SQL/ASP/VB/Java/middleware Programmer
Review: This book really helped me to discover the proper and efficient use of stored procs. It covers every aspect of dealing with stored procedures and really is a must have for any SQL/ASP/VB/Java programmer. 4-star material for experts 5-star meterial for non-specialists
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Summary: Effective training meterial
Review: The book has been so needed by the people who need to understand stored procedure design. And by focusing on the actual application of design concepts to Microsoft technologies, the book takes an important step in the process that makes it more illustrative. It's easy-to-read style works.
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Summary: Good examples
Review: I have found it deep enough to fill some gaps and clarify areas that I previously felt I knew very well.The main advantage of the book to my mind though is that it does exactly what it says on the cover - it provides pratical examples of all the concepts discussed.
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Summary: Clear and well
Review: Very well organized. I am sure I will continue to use this book as a resource as my knowledge in SQL grows. This author knows how to present material so that a novice can understand. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Is this a war between interested parties?
Review: I do not understand how can reviews be so different. Is this 1-star or 5-star book?
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Summary: Worthless
Review: This has got to be the worst SQL book ever written. It's full of cliches and shallow explanations, toy examples and buggy code. This one isn't worth even flipping through.
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Summary: Don't judge this one by its cover
Review: This book doesn't cover SQL Server 2000 in any depth, doesn't cover stored procedures to any great degree, and doesn't offer anything insightful re: programming. Basically, the book doesn't do what the cover claims. It was a complete waste of my time.
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Summary: Very poor quality
Review: Poor code (doesn't work, uses bad techniques, etc.) + poor prose = poor book. I've never seen such a useless programming book. And they thought they'd fool me with the thick paper - that just makes it worse. Be smart. Spend your money elsewhere.
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