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Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (With CD-ROM) by Ken Henderson ISBN: 0-201-70046-8 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 27 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (79 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Deep coverage of lots of subjects
Comment: Henderson is a modern-day polymath -- a person who's mastered many subjects. When you run into someone who purports to know something about a lot of different topics, usually they don't have much depth, the classic "jack of all trades and master of none." That's obviously not the case with this author. This book covers one topic after another in astonishing detail. The version control chapter is a must-read even for non-SQL Server people. Programmers in general should read it. Ditto for the design patterns chapter -- it's great stuff. The xprocs chapter, the database design chapter -- each of these is a distinctly different area within SQL Server and database technology. Not just any author could have pulled this off with such depth.
My favorite example of this is the coverage of .NET. No one but a programmer who'd been there and back could have explained all the reasons we need the .NET Framework. No one except a programmer who'd built complex applications the "hard" way would be able to set the stage for the .NET Framework being embedded in SQL Server the way Henderson has. You get the sense that you're talking to THE MAN insofar as what the Framework will do for software deveopment. It's unusual to find this kind of insight anywhere, let alone in a database book.
Henderson is my new all-time favorite technical author. I have his other T-SQL book and one of his C++ books. He's the best of the best.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great Ken Henderson SQL book
Comment: I bought the first Guru's Guide -- The Guru's Guide to Transact SQL -- as a way to fine-tune my SQL skills when I began a new job as a SQL Server Admin / Developer. Nearly two years later, I still find myself reaching for that book for almost every unique SQL problem that I encounter, and I am rarely disappointed. When I saw that Henderson had written another SQL book, I expected another winner. I was not disappointed.
The coverage of stored procedures, user-defined functions, and XML was first-rate. And the relatively short chapter on .NET was loaded with reasons why every SQL Server developer should be embracing this new techology.
The Essays on Software Engineering were extremely well-written. The intermingling of personal experiences and reflection with the technical details of the topics was done just right. It added a certain amount of relevance to the section that made it feel less like a theoretical lecture and more like the sharing of information by a well-respected colleague. One who has obviously experienced these things and knows what he is talking about. On the surface, these essays may seem a bit out of place in a book about Stored Procedures and XML but, in fact, they fit very well with the overall theme of the book: SQL and Stored Procedure development is "real" software engineering and needs to be treated as such if you are going to be good at it.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not worth your money
Comment: This attempt to rewrite a sampling of bol with some paraphrasing falls completely short of anything worthwhile. The code is horrible. Most of it won't run or crashes.
This is horrible. Not example or explanations except for vague references to things that don't exist in a production world.
Don't buy it. It's hyped by paid reviewers.
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Title: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL by Ken Henderson ISBN: 0201615762 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 23 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals by Ken Henderson ISBN: 0201700476 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 24 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook by Ken England ISBN: 1555582419 Publisher: Digital Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $47.95 |
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Title: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference by Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia ISBN: 0735612706 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 03 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example by Carlos Rojas, Fernando Guerrero ISBN: 0789724499 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 17 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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