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Title: Terrible Book
Review: I bought this book expecting it to be a book on development, best practices, deployment etc. This is a poor excuse for a T-SQL book. I am on page 180 so far and only the first 20 pages or so actually discuss anything halfway interesting. The author spends roughly 2-3 pages discusing the sql syntax of a select statement, then insert statement, then update statement etc on and on and on and on. I didnt buy this book to learn SQL. What about database synchonization between the PDA and a remote sql server via remoting or web services or best practices for resolving sychronization conflicts. How about something interesting and not so junior programmer. I have looked at the end of the book and it doesnt look like it will get better. If it does I will retract this review. Regardless I have just wasted 160 pages SO FAR on learning T-SQL over again. If you want to learn T-SQL I recommend O'Reilly's Transact-SQL Programming. If the author reads this I want my money back.
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