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Summary: Can any one answer?
Review: Dear publisher,I am from India. I tried to buy the MS SQL Server 2000 DBA Survival Guide, Second Edition in a Local BPB Book Depot New Delhi. They dont have this book in their Catalog. MS SQL Server 7.0 DBA Survival Guide is availabe but it wont solve my purpose. Any Idea of when this book will be released for Reprint in India? Thanks & Waiting for your quick reply
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Summary: Good book
Review: Given that bol or other documentation doesn't provide that much of a structured approach to manage your data within the sqlserver environment, this one is clearly a good companion...
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Summary: New to SQL 2K....
Review: I bought this book as a companion to my exam prep reading for Microsoft's SQL Admin exam. I only had 6 months of working with SQL2K when I started to read and study. This book gave great clarification on otherwise vague material. The detail was easy to understand on all levels. I have now been working with SQL 2K for 2 years and still go to my survival guide for reference daily. Also- it's on it's 2nd edition- How many tech books last long enough to go to a 2nd edition?!
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Summary: Source code no longer available
Review: I bought this book as it had spelt out a solution in the text and reffered to the source code suppossedly online. Tried witht eh publisher for many weeks to get the source code as promised to no avail. A good overview, but no real depth.
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Summary: Great for new DBA's
Review: I bought this book upcoming becoming a SQL Server DBA. I had three years programming experience which included T-SQL, however, NO DBA experience! It provided excellent explanations of DBA tasks, especially the all important database backups and restorations. I did not require any other book resources. I highly recommend it for those entering the DBA field.
Side note: I only used this book for industry experience and have not used it towards an attempt at MCDBA certification. I have since read the MCSE SQL Server 2000 Administration Guide for Dummies and found the SQL Server 2000 DBA Survival Guide to provide more detail on certain subjects.
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Summary: Must for DBAs
Review: Last week I had to migrate from Oracle 8 to SQL Server 2000 and this book came in very handy. The chapters are well composed; especially about networking is easy to read and understand. The examples throughout the book are excellent and the case studies are good too. It could have more questions based on real life settings for prcatice. Anyway this is a great reference book.
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Summary: it is an excellent book for all starter DBAs.
Review: The book provides all the necessary DBA concepts in a very cogent manner.I work on ERP application which involves database admin also.I feel more confident after going through the book.I have it all the time at my workplace
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Summary: it is an excellent book for all starter DBAs.
Review: The book provides all the necessary DBA concepts in a very cogent manner.I work on ERP application which sometimes involves database admin.I feel more confident after going through the book.I have it all the time at my workplace
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Summary: Good book
Review: This is a huge book with lots of information. I liked the presentation and the author knows what he is talking about on a very large subject. My only complaint is that I wish the author had written more from a tips and tricks style, or added a section like that.
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Summary: Excellent first book for new SQL Server DBA's
Review: This is a very nice book for new SQL Server DBA's or those who are moving up from a DRDBMS to Microsoft's server side solution.
It is easy to read, and I never once got the impression that the authors were more interested in trying to impress me with their own knowledge of the product than trying to convey their knowledge to me.
The book goes into every facet of SQL Server, and the hints and tips proved to be very valuable. While I did not find the tools on the included CD Rom to be very valuable, after a thorough reading through of this book I had the system set up, and a large production database in working order and backed up.
This book helps to take a lot of the fear away from what can be a very complicated program to use, and is worth every penny I paid for it
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