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Click To View Larger Picture The Microsoft(r) SQL Server Survival Guide
by Jim Panttaja, Mary Panttaja, Bruce Prendergast
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ISBN: 0471127434
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (11 April, 1996)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 436,098
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Rating: 2 out of 5
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Pass on this one
There isn't enough good examples or SQL specific knowledge contained in this book to be really useful to anyone other than a beginning to average SQL user. Most of the book is just general database concepts. For a survival guide one would expect in-depth troubleshooting and lots of specific real-life examples pertaining to SQL server...you'll find very little of that. A better title for this book should have been "Overview of relational database concepts and practices".

Rating: 5 out of 5
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Great info not found in the manuals
This book has lots of helpful information that is not otherwise covered in the SQL Server manuals or online documentation. There are plenty of facts and tidbits regarding how to configure SQL Server and use the RDBMS as an application platform, as well as info on how the various configuration parameters play off one another.

The section on replication is pretty sparse, though, and doesn't quite jibe with the product itself, since SQLServer's replication is really hard to keep up and running.

All in all, found the book to be pure gold, with a wealth of information. This is not a substitute for the manuals though, some experience is assumed. Not a books for novices, not is it a substitute for RTFM. Rather, a complement to the manuals.

Rating: 2 out of 5
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There are better choices than this one
I found this book to be weak on specific details. It spends far more time discussing generalities like Client/Server, RDBMS concepts than it does on running MS MS-SQL Server. I ended up buying sqlserver6.5 unleashed to fill in the very considerable gaps left by this book. Better, would be a combination of sqlserver unleashed or dba survival combined with the MS documentation. Also, there is a very good newsgroup at www.dejanews.com that has been invaluable

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