- Paperback: 550 pages
- Publisher: Prentice-Hall; 2nd Revised edition edition (Dec 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130122564
- ISBN-13: 978-0130122568
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.8 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,732,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A hands-on guide to maximising SQL server database applications. It covers everything the reader needs to know from designing the system to optimising, tuning and providing back-up and recovery.
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If there were a way to give 0 stars, that's what I'd rate this book. I found the previous version rather spotty in its coverage and thought that the depth was uneven from chapter to chapter. But it did contain some useful information, and I expected the same from this edition. To my considerable disappointment, this is simply the 6.5 book with search and replace of 6 with 7 and 2K with 8K. The author does not discuss the new optimizer or disk storage structures, but does include material on database devices (not a part of 7.0 storage architecture) and mirroring (not available in 7.0). The discussion of query plans is about 6.x. I am surprised that a respectable publisher like Prentice-Hall even let this out their doors (guess they needed the money) and I am even more surprised that a reputable author like Jeff Garbus lent his name to this "fleece the tourists" work.
There is almost nothing about details of SQL Server 7.0 that would help you improve performance. This book is really dissapointing. This 2nd edition still only covers 6.5 stuff. One good example is the books description of the physical storage of the TEXT data type as using a linked list of 2K pages. SQL Server 7.0 has many advanced features for storing this data type and uses a B-tree instead of a linked list. The author goes over many tuning details needed when using 6.5 failing to mention the vast improvements in 7.0 that have made most of the tuning parameters obsolete.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
This book does not deal with 7
2 Oct 1999
I purchased this to better understand the query execution plans that are produced by Query Analyzer and this book explains them in terms consistent with 6.5, not 7.0!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The worst I've ever seen. Prentice Hall ripped me off.
26 May 1999
This book blatantly lies about what is in SQL 7. It's somewhat accurate about 6.5, but who cares? I would have given this 0 stars if I could.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Terrible
18 May 1999
I was anxious to get information on SQL server 7.0 and purchased some of the early books on it, while none of them were great, this was the worst. It is a complete waste of money. For example, the section on SHOWPLAN is all relating to 6.5 and here is a quote from the book ".. we also review some new SHOWPLAN features found in SQL Server 6.5." This is not why I bought a book on 7.0
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