Title: Returning mine
Product review: Five problems:1. Code is stupid and unhelpful. Either theexamples are too kludgy to be useful or too simplistic to teach youanything2. Code formatting is impossible to read. I'd beembarrassed to circulate anything I'd written formatted likethis.3. Writing is terribly dull. There's a way to keep thereader engaged in a technical book. These guys haven't found it.4.Far too many screen pictures. Ken Henderson's Guru's Guide toTransact-SQL laments this trend and rightfully so. We don't need ahalf page shot of Query Analyzer to see the results of a small query....5. SQL 2K coverage is lacking. There are several deviations(timestamp and @@identity being two examples) into things that areeither obsolete or moot points in SQL 2K. The authors appear not toknow SQL 2K very well. It looks like the book was written for SQL 7,then retitled when it ran late.What does all this mean? I'msending my copy back, that's what.
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