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Title: Though I feel like a fink for saying so, book is useless
Review: This is one poor book. First, the lack of SQL Server 7.0 coverage is inexcusable. Based on when the book came out, it should have *focused* on 7.0, not 4.2. Second, many of the queries do not work on 7.0. For example, there's one that queries the sysprocedures table. Sysprocedures no longer exists in 7.0 -- the query will neither compile nor run. There are several examples that rely on the implicit ordering of the GROUP BY and UNION commands. Again, that is gone in 7.0. Also, old style joins are used throughout, despite thae fact that they've been deprecated by Microsoft for years now. Worse yet, none of the new 7.0 syntax is covered at all. There are a number of commands that have changed substantially (DUMP/LOAD for example) and a number of completely new commands that this book omits entirely. This book should not have been published. Save your money.
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