Title: Awfully bad
Product review: This is very easily the worst SQL Server book around. It's absolutely loaded with rubbish. A full listing of all the junk in this book would take a book itself, but I'll give you one that really takes the cake. It's a tip on page 358:"Rules are made to be broken, but only if the solution is thereby improved."No, rules are _not_ made to be broken. They're _made_ to be followed, hence the term "rules." _Sometimes_ rules _are_ broken, but that is not their innate purpose. The rest of the world knows this. These guys apparently do not. The book is full of cliched, trite stuff like this. What it's not full of is useful technical info. You get lots of nice pictures of Query Analyzer and Visual Source Safe, but very little real technical help. If you buy the book expecting to learn how to write stored procedures, you will be sadly mistaken.
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