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Title: A great book, if slightly dated
Review: I have always used O'Reilly books when I can, because they don't have endless pages of filler material, like screenshots and repeated code listings, as many other books do. This book is no exception; it is concise and very helpful. The only reason it doesn't get five stars is because it claims to cover MS SQL 7.0 better than it does. A few of the examples need tweaking to work on 7.0, but it's nothing major. I think the succint style more than compensates and makes it better than most other bloated 800+ pages bricks out there.
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