Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585 EAN: 9780764589133 ISBN: 076458913X Label: For Dummies Manufacturer: For Dummies Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: December 19, 2005 Publisher: For Dummies Sales Rank: 103605 Studio: For Dummies
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Rating: - SQL
The product was as stated. It was delivered on time. I will recommend and use the company/seller again.
Rating: - The worst Dummies book ever written.
This has got to be one of the worst dummies books ever written. The writer of the books skips over too many steps, assumes that you know everything there is to know about the AdventureworksDW data warehouse database or the AdventureWorks database with all of their complicated entity relationships and he doesn't even provide the SQL queries necessary to do the examples that he has in the book in chapters 5, 6 and 7. You have to take best guess at how to write the query for the AdventureWorksDW data ... Read More
Rating: - Very Bad Purchase
This book has a lot of problems. It skips many intermediate steps that even a mid-level developer would probably need. I looked at these comments prior to purchasing the book, but thought these people are probably really good programmers that already *know it all* and are being way too critical. I can say that wasn't the case at all, and they were right on. I believe this book was put together very poorly and Mark Robinson could have done a much better job in explaining these intermediate steps ... Read More
Rating: - Complete garbage
This book skips so many intermediate steps that it is not suitable for beginners. It also assumes that the reader is already familiar with the adventure works data warehouse schema. It fails to give beginners enough background to be a useful learning tool.