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Title: Disjointed and out of date
Review: My first problem with this book is that it misleads you into believing its a 7.0 book when in fact it's not even specifically an MS SQL book -- it also covers Sybase. None of the example code is for version 7.0 of MS SQL. Some of it won't even work on 7.0. My second problem is that many of the examples fail to tell you whether they're for Microsoft or Sybase. You end up trying code on Microsoft that will never work because it uses Sybase-specific syntax. My last problem is that the book is disjointed. I don't know if its the multiple authors or what, but the topics are all over the place. One minute they're at 30,000 feet, the next minute they're strafing the football field. One minute they're on stuff that's really only meaningful to a DBA, the next minute they're trying to be coder-specific.
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