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SQL Server System Administration (The Landmark Series)
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Author: Chris Miller, Sean Baird, John Lynn, Michael Hotek, Denis Darveau
List Price: $29.99
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ISBN: 1562059556
Publisher: Que (09 December, 1998)
Edition: Textbook Binding
Sales Rank: 198,313
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Terrible writing by non-DBAs
This book reads like it's written by a couple of high schoolers who didn't have their grammar teacher look over their work before it got into print. It reads a lot like the incomprehensible nonsense on Hotek's Web site. It also reads like the people who wrote it aren't actually SQL Server admins. It reads like they're consultants. I don't think these guys would know the daily life of a DBA if it jumped up and bit them on the a$$. Hotek in particular is a singularly bad writer. One sentence fragment after another litters his work. After seeing this, I will never trust another thing Hotek says.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Buyer Beware: Book doesn't cover SQL Server 2000
A book like this ought to tell you what version of SQL Server it covers, but it doesn't. Instead, we get one anachronism after another from the 7.0 days. The book should focus on the current version of the product. From the title, you'd never know that the book was so out of date. It's one of those books with a very early "Use By" date. Unfortunately, this one has already expired.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Out of date
After some guy on a Web site recommended this book, I went and bought it. Frankly, I'm disappointed. Were there pages missing or did old Mike forget about SQL Agent? With SQL Server 2000 on the street, much of what you see here is old hat. Current books cover SQL 2000. This one doesn't. For a guy that apparently spends more time on the newsgroups than he does actually using the product, the self-important style is inappropriate. Go and earn your stripes, Mike.
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