Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9780764577550 ISBN: 0764577557 Label: For Dummies Manufacturer: For Dummies Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: February 06, 2006 Publisher: For Dummies Sales Rank: 57244 Studio: For Dummies
Now updated to reflect the much-anticipated 'Yukon' release of SQL Server, this friendly guide shows database developers and administrators as well as those who use database application how to get up to speed fast
Offers a gentle introduction to relational database design and shows how to build databases, create database applications, and maintain and optimize database performance
Covers the major new features of the 'Yukon' release-including analysis services, reporting services, and notification services
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Vital Information Missing
Bad even for a dummies book. Vital information is missing and makes serious assumptions about the knowledge of the reader. I can't recommend this.
Rating: - Very Disappointed
Actually I just start to read this book. So far I can say it very disappoints me. The author use the first two entire chapters to 'list' the features in MS SQL Server 2005. For me, a newbie, totally have no idea what he is talking about.
Rating: - Hard to follow
I agree with the previous reviewer. This book is not focused and not targeted to an audience. Most of the features are not covered with enough depth and background to make the information useful. The chapter on replication, which is an advanced feature, was pretty good, but the chapters on backup and recovery where poorly explained.
Rating: - Confusing
This author often forgets who he is talking to. At one point he describes in painful detail on how to join tables and yet in other places he introduces terminology with no explanation. One chapter is devoted to creating a windows application in VS 2005 to display data and the description is incorrect. Is this a book about SQL Server or Visual Studio? I think the publishers of this book would do well to recall this book and rewrite with a particular audience in mind. Is the book an introduction ... Read More
- Confusing
