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Review title: Coding by the Numbers
Product review: Not a bad book if you want to be led by the hand through rudimentry coding. It will get you there. It is a bit dry but fairly comprehensive. It will take you through the steps of setting up a connection, performing select queries, updates, deletes. There are a couple of nice chapters on using stored procedures to access SQL Server quickly. This book is also nice in that has lot of hand holding for getting around SQL Server itself, but this book is definitely for beginners. Even for me coming from an Access background and no experience with SQL server found it a little too basic and dry. I don't regret getting it though, I find it's not the book I find my self turning to. But it does spell it out if you're willing to wade through it. I would not get this book as a reference work. Only get it if you want a tutorial.
