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Summary: Excellent book on SQLServer 2000
Review: Really it is an excellent book for SQL server.iam new programmer to SQLserver 2000.i tired with trying to learn many books on SQLServer2000. Only this book i picked up very Fast.i don't know why some reviewers not satisfied with this book...
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Summary: Excellent book on SQLServer 2000
Review: Really it is an excellent book for SQL server.iam new programmer to SQLserver 2000.i tired with trying to learn many books on SQLServer2000. Only this book i picked up very Fast.i don't know why some reviewers not satisfied with this book...
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Summary: Good book as a reference.
Review: This book introduced me to several aspects of T-SQL that many other books did not. It's dog eared and carried by me every day. It does have some technical errors but to me they were passable; that is what the website is for. (Any book produced about a technical subject that is error free will be the Holy Grail.)The book covers primarily T-SQL and the methods of programming it. It is not meant as a primer for accessing T-SQL through ADO or DMO. The best way to access the code is through SQL's Query Analyzer, hands down. It gives an excellent introduction to the meaning behind T-SQL, including stored procedures, triggers, creating and altering all of the above. It also gives a good breakdown on the differences between MS SQL 7 and MS SQL 2000. (I believe that a good reason I didn't have the technical problems mentioned elsewhere is that this book is aimed primarily at SQL 2000 and I used it for SQL 7 so I examined everything carefully to ensure it used nothing SQL2K specific.) I believe this book is one of a very few that cover T-SQL in any depth. It came highly recommended to me and I pass that recommendation to you. Garth does have the ability to explain technical subjects in an easy to follow format and that ability is well used in this book.
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Summary: Good book as a reference.
Review: This book introduced me to several aspects of T-SQL that many other books did not. It's dog eared and carried by me every day. It does have some technical errors but to me they were passable; that is what the website is for. (Any book produced about a technical subject that is error free will be the Holy Grail.) The book covers primarily T-SQL and the methods of programming it. It is not meant as a primer for accessing T-SQL through ADO or DMO. The best way to access the code is through SQL's Query Analyzer, hands down. It gives an excellent introduction to the meaning behind T-SQL, including stored procedures, triggers, creating and altering all of the above. It also gives a good breakdown on the differences between MS SQL 7 and MS SQL 2000. (I believe that a good reason I didn't have the technical problems mentioned elsewhere is that this book is aimed primarily at SQL 2000 and I used it for SQL 7 so I examined everything carefully to ensure it used nothing SQL2K specific.) I believe this book is one of a very few that cover T-SQL in any depth. It came highly recommended to me and I pass that recommendation to you. Garth does have the ability to explain technical subjects in an easy to follow format and that ability is well used in this book.
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Summary: Great TSQL book
Review: This book is an easy book to read and the examples help to clarify what Garth states in his book. Not only does he provide you with examples he also provides with you code that will cause error messages and then explains why. Even though I have bought numerous books on T-SQL this is by far one of the best and after reading it I will keep it handy as a reference. Great book Garth, thanks for writing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Full of sample code
Review: This book is full of well documented code samples that clearly explain concepts presented in the book. The author provides different levels of code which allow beginners to gain proficiency and experienced developers to learn alternative approaches to solve problems. There is a real focus on using Transact-SQL as a programming language to solve real-world problems. I urge you to visit the web site for the book (SQLBook.com) and download the sample chapters. That will give you a good idea of the book's content and level of detail. You can also look through the table of contents. I found Code Centric to be helpful and informative.
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Summary: Full of sample code
Review: This book is full of well documented code samples that clearly explain concepts presented in the book. The author provides different levels of code which allow beginners to gain proficiency and experienced developers to learn alternative approaches to solve problems. There is a real focus on using Transact-SQL as a programming language to solve real-world problems. I urge you to visit the web site for the book (SQLBook.com) and download the sample chapters. That will give you a good idea of the book's content and level of detail. You can also look through the table of contents. I found Code Centric to be helpful and informative.
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Summary: Decent, but lots of bloated code listings
Review: This book is okay, it's just not great. Some of the code is educational, most of it isn't. The author has some strange coding techniques and formatting choices that I normally wouldn't recommend,but I guess that's his choice. All in all, this is just an average or slightly below average book.
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Summary: You have got to be kidding
Review: This is quite easily the worst technical book I've ever even begun to read. "5000 lines" of source code? Only if you count gratuitous use of space-filling comments - in many examples there are more comments than code. Real-world code? Is "real-world" a synonym for "buggy"? Easily 25% of the code samples have bugs that will prevent them from running on any version of SQL Server. And the worst part of it all is that the book is written so poorly. Mr. Wells should definitely keep his day job.
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Summary: Good T-SQL Book
Review: This is the book I am looking for, I would like to recommand people to go to his web site first before saying anything about this book. Please take a look at the real world application!!.What I like the most about this book is that the way he shows me how to deal with stored procedure, triggers and use them with ASP pages. Plus he used command objects to execute stored procedure and how to pass some variables around either inside of stored procedure or ASP pages. Thanks Garth Wells. You did very good jobs. Mani
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