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Title: Interesting, but not very practical
Review: If you already know some flavor of SQL (e.g. you have an Oracle background) and you're trying to figure out how to do stuff in Java that you might have done in PL/SQL... don't buy this book.Almost the last 100 pages are devoted to the Javadoc for the JDBC APIs... which to me was a total waste of paper.Out of the remaining pages, only pages 25-101 explain how to use the JDBC API and even then what it covers is so basic you can figure it out yourself from the Javadocs.The middle section on "Applied JDBC" is interesting but of little use if you're working on a team that has already figured out their architecture. It also reminds me of old home computer magazines that featured pages and pages of source listings and little substance. Additionally, I suspect it is too complex for those readers that actually find the first section useful.
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