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Title: Out-of-date and loaded with errors
Review: I bought this book because I needed to quickly pick up Transact-SQL for a new job I recently started. I was really disappointed. The purported 7.0 coverage is nothing more than an appendix. Why do the appendix at all? Do you really think you can cover a product that is as different from 6.5 as 7.0 is in an appendix?The other stuff is annoying too. E.g., there's this focus on bcp.exe that I don't understand. Who in their right mind would call it from Transact-SQL? And why are they using old-style joins all over the place? 6.5 had ANSI joins -- why use the old syntax that MicroSoft has recommended against?And the worst part is the writing. You can definitely tell a group of guys who don't know each other well put this one together.Usually, I'm really satisfied with the Nutshell books, but not this one. I'm sending it back for a refund.
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