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Title: Terribly out-dated
Review: The problem with this book is that it only covers version 6.5 and earlier in any detail. Sorry, the cover out to mention that. A single appendix does not constitute SQL 7 coverage. Worse yet, many of the techniques you take to solving complex query problems changed dramatically from 6.5 to 7.0, so a number of the solutions offered in the book either don't work at all or work very poorly. Giving when it was published, there's no excuse for this book not covering 7.0 and its way of doing things in detail. For the would-be SQL 7 transact-sql practitioner, this book is very near useless.
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