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Summary: Excellent book for MS SQL Server
Review: I had a lot of expectations for this book when I ordered it, and it has fulfilled those expectations. An excellent book no matter where you are in your experience with SQL. It has excellent tips, background material, and technical examples. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Very good book for MS SQL Server 6.5 Architecture
Review: I read the book carefully and found the topics of SQL Server Architecture and Locking to be very important. Especially, the book has covered architecture part in great details, which no other books mentions about. I look forward to Ron Soukup's next book (may be Inside SQL Server 7.0)
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Summary: Excellent coverage - great resource for MCSD exam
Review: I used this book to study for the MCSD exam 70-127: Implementing a Database Design with SQL Server 6.5.This book is excellent! It touches on EVERY aspect of SQL Server 6.5 that you want to know about, and is written in a very readable format. This is very important when the subject matter is technical. Let's face it - no-one relishes this stuff, so when a book such as this is written in a manner which MAKES you want to read on, that's a great thing! Well done Mr Soukup.
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Summary: Absolutely the Best. Well Written.
Review: It is not often I give 5 stars (except when I eat Chinese food). I learned more about SQL Server from this single book than any other source. Concise and clear explainations. Detail where it needs to be. I used this in developing my first SQL Server 6.5 app. I am so confident now I can talk intelligently with DBA's and systems people. From VB to admin to BCP to T-SQL. If I had a reference like this for other products I would have very few books. Great!
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Summary: Excellent insider knowledge
Review: This book hits all the right buttons for a developer. I really like the Transact-SQL Examples and Brainteasers section. If you do anything with SQL Server (including admin), you will find the whole book really illuminating.
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Summary: Very good book for MS SQL Server 6.5 Architecture
Review: This book was awesome. It takes a very very deep and granular look at SQL server. I just got a job as a SQL DBA and I wanted to know everything there was about SQL server. For three months I read this book on the bus to and from work, and now, when an issue comes up at work, i am AMAZED by how much I know. He also really prepares you with the transition to SQL 7, hinting at possible new features as he goes along. If you had only read this book, you would know more about SQL 7 than you think! Only 2 negative comments: Very pro-microsoft and anti-competition. Oracle has GOT to do some things better than SQL Server, but you would never know that by reading this book. Also, this book is NOT A REFERENCE book. It is a story about SQL Server, and if you get to the end, you will be a kick-butt DBA.
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Summary: Brilliant. Simply brilliant
Review: This book was very helpful for preping for the test, as was the MS training books I also bought. The difference was that Soukup's book was interesting to read.
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