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Title: Obsolete and poorly written
Review: The code in this book targets versions prior to 7.0. So not only is the book not up to SQL Server 2000, it's not even up to SS 7.0. Many of the examples simple don't work because of changes in the product since 6.5 was released over 4 years ago. The examples are also often very essoteric. Who cares about calling bcp.exe from Transact-SQL? Why would you want to do that, especially now that we have the BULK INSERT command? Also, the writing is rather poor. The book reads like a dry text book - it'll put you to sleep. Was really sorry I wasted my time with this one.
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