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Title: Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming by Robin Dewson ISBN: 1-86100-523-7 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good coverage of the GUI tools
Comment: This book is a good starting point programmers who are familiar with other databases but want to learn about SQL Server 2000. This book includes a 120-day evaluation copy of SQL Server 2000, and the author guides us through, installation and configuration of our first database. In the process, we learn how to use the Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer programs for database development.
Unfortuantely, the section on primary keys and unique constraints is weak. And, the author's coverage of triggers
is confusing. You'll have to find another book to supplement these sections if you have not yet mastered these concepts.
Rating: 3
Summary: Mixed feelings
Comment: I'm really torn between giving this book 3 stars or 4 stars. I decided to give it 3 because it did not live up to the expectations of the other Wrox Beginning titles that I have read.
The good stuff is that it shows a tremendous amount on using Enterprise Manager to do stuff more easily. It also provides a decent overview of all things related to SQL Server. I really liked the chapter on creating a database maintenance plan.
The bad stuff is that it covers everything in minimalist detail. The book has a repetitive them, which is "You will learn a lot more by reading Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming". I decided that since I already knew the small amount of detail that was presented in the book, I would jump ahead and read Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming to just save time. I have just started that book today, but it looks to be much more promising. Another thing that really bothered me about this book was that it didn't follow the Wrox Beginning formula. The book started out the right way, saying we would build a database application for a golf league, but we never really completed the application. I think a better format for the book would be to get all of the business rules, complete the application in its entirety and add sample data. Enforcing business rules by using SQL Server technologies along the way would be a great way to develop a real application and give a good introduction to SQL Server programming. The book was pretty light on programming as well, mostly just introducing concepts but not doing much implementation.
To summarize, if you want a good general overview of SQL Server 2000 with minimal coverage of programming (just the highlights) then this book could be a good fit for you. Based on the small amount of information I have read in Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming, I would recommend that you just jump into that book instead, especially if you already have some SQL Server experience.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not Very Beneficial
Comment: I read this book cover to cover only because I was required to for a graduate level class. Let's be clear about the type of book this is: one of those hand-holding exercises that walk you through every screen of the product, including a fifty-page chapter on installation, and manages to get at least two plugs per chapter in for another book by the same publisher. If you're looking for that sort of thing, it is fairly thorough and well thought-out and does include a significant amount of information on pitfalls to avoid. However, I personally found little here that I couldn't have found myself simply by installing the product and reading the online help. The pitfall warnings could have been condensed into a single chapter (and would have been much more useful than this 700-page tome). If you're looking for database theory, look elsewhere. Those kinds of issues are given short-shrift - normalization, for example, is glossed over in two pages that don't really explain it well, even though this is a key database management concept. I realized something was wrong when by chapter 12 (of 20) I was still reading statements like, "Don't worry too much about the SQL syntax shown here". Really? By the end of the book I was still wondering when we would become concerned. Mr. Dewson is obviously a knowledgeable database developer, and from his picture on the cover appears to be a nice person, but he is not a professional writer, and unfortunately it shows.
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Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming by Rob Vieira ISBN: 1861004486 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: December, 1900 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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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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Title: Professional SQL Server 2000 Database Design by Louis Davidson ISBN: 1861004761 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Beginning SQL Server 2000 for Visual Basic Developers by Thearon Willis ISBN: 1861004672 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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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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