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Title: Yes, this book *is* as poor as others are saying...
Review: To start, mixing mySQL & mSQL into one book is not a good idea, and this implementation brought out the worst. It was often difficult to tell which the author was presently discussing. Secondly, a reader new to SQL would be very lost reading this book. It often gets lost in verbose treatment of details and delivers disappointingly little useful info. The most potentially useful chapter, #10, offers a sample application in Perl. However, the application is so obscure and the explanation is so poor that the example is not useful. O'Reilly books used to uphold a high standard but have been slipping fast in the last couple years. This work and others makes me seriouly question relying on the cover to assume adequate quality.
