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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780123693792
ISBN: 0123693799
Label: Morgan Kaufmann
Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 840
Publication Date: August 15, 2005
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Sales Rank: 214639
Studio: Morgan Kaufmann
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Rating:  - Great Book, Terrible Typesetting
As a DBA, I use this book often. It's been helpful and I recommend it to others.
My issue with this book is not its content, it's the terrible typesetting throughout. The text is the raggedest of ragged right, sample SQL code wraps in odd places, diagrams are sloppy (redraw the diagrams by hand if you need to, it was done tastefully in Kernighan and Richie), title pages are covered in large and unnecessary gradient images. The base font is big, which wastes space and makes the book inconveniently ... Read More
Rating:  - Somewhat useful but overrated.
This is one of those books that are perhaps nice to have IN ADDITION to something better. Btw, do NOT overestimate the "for smarties" part in the title: the book is not all that advanced: it's more like an extensive cookbook with a lot of personal opinion thrown in (not always consistent; for example, in one place he inveighs against the evils of using sequential-number sequences as primary keys -- 'cause a table is not a sequence, you see, we're talking about sets here, who, by definition, are unordered -- OK, ... Read More
Rating:  - A Major disappointment
I've seen various versions of this book sitting on DBA bookshelves for years. The concept is a good one - advanced sql for those of us who already have significant experience.
This book is NOT an advanced SQL textbook. Another reviewer, Tim Boyes, describes it as "SQL 201", and he's exactly right. Most of the content in this book is just barely above basic SQL knowledge, and half the time I felt like I was reading a re-hash of SQL BOL.
Another thing that I noticed (how could I miss ... Read More
Rating: - Joe does a pretty good job
Some of the concepts are a little lofty for the casual SQL programmer, but it is SQL for Smarties not dummies. He gives a lot of SQL code in his examples, but does not show the results of the code in a screen shot that I believe would be most helpful.
Overall, I like the book and would buy it again given the opportunity.
Rating: - A great help
As a DBA not doing so much with SQL this book is and has already been a great help for me creating complex queries.
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