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Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming
by Robin Dewson
List Price: $44.99
Our Price: $31.49
ISBN: 1590592522
Publisher: APress (September, 2003)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 82,426
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Rating: 4 out of 5
Good coverage of the GUI tools
This book is a good starting point programmers who are familiar with other databases but want to learn about SQL Server 2000. This book includes a 120-day evaluation copy of SQL Server 2000, and the author guides us through, installation and configuration of our first database. In the process, we learn how to use the Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer programs for database development.Unfortuantely, the section on primary keys and unique constraints is weak. And, the author's coverage of triggers is confusing. You'll have to find another book to supplement these sections if you have not yet mastered these concepts.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Great book for those not knowing SQL Server 2000
Bought this book as I know nothing about SQL Server 2000, or any database. Found it was written at an easy pace but great attention to detail which made everything real clear.Found I was up and running in hours and enough in the book to get me far enough so I could do what I needed to do, quickly. However, dont be fooled. It didnt treat me as stupid! It also gave me a lot of info which makes me no longer a beginner. Also cool that it had an evaluation copy of SQL Server. I dont normally like Wrox (too big!) but this might change my mind and swap over to them. Recommend it to those who know databases or not. Well done!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Not Very Beneficial
I read this book cover to cover only because I was required to for a graduate level class. Let's be clear about the type of book this is: one of those hand-holding exercises that walk you through every screen of the product, including a fifty-page chapter on installation, and manages to get at least two plugs per chapter in for another book by the same publisher. If you're looking for that sort of thing, it is fairly thorough and well thought-out and does include a significant amount of information on pitfalls to avoid. However, I personally found little here that I couldn't have found myself simply by installing the product and reading the online help. The pitfall warnings could have been condensed into a single chapter (and would have been much more useful than this 700-page tome). If you're looking for database theory, look elsewhere. Those kinds of issues are given short-shrift - normalization, for example, is glossed over in two pages that don't really explain it well, even though this is a key database management concept. I realized something was wrong when by chapter 12 (of 20) I was still reading statements like, "Don't worry too much about the SQL syntax shown here". Really? By the end of the book I was still wondering when we would become concerned. Mr. Dewson is obviously a knowledgeable database developer, and from his picture on the cover appears to be a nice person, but he is not a professional writer, and unfortunately it shows.
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