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Title: Mistitled
Review: The title of this book should be "SQL Server 7 for SQL Server 6.5 DBAs". Almost half the book is "what's new in 7.0" and the rest is a quick overview (yes, quick, despite the fact that it's almost 1000 pages!) and incomplete (try finding a list of string manipulation functions like substring() or rtrim() -- good luck!) of SQL Server 7 syntax. When I have a question, I don't even bother with this book, I go straight for my five-year-old copy of _SQL Server 6.5 Unleashed_.
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