Product Description
This unique cookbook contains a wealth of solutions to problems that SQL programmers face all the time. The recipes inside range from how to perform simple tasks, like importing external data, to ways of handling issues that are more complicated, like set algebra. Authors Ales Spetic and Jonathan Gennick, two authorities with extensive database and SQL programming experience, follow each recipe with a discussion explaining the logic and concepts underlying the solution. Topics in the cookbook include Audit logging, Hierarchies, Importing data, Sets, Statistics, Temporal data, and Data Structures. Whether you plan to use the cookbook’s recipes directly, as a source of ideas, or as a way to learn a little more about SQL and what you can do with it, the Transact-SQL Cookbook will become an essential part of your library.
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Bought this without reading the reviews. Big mistake. Full of terribly simple examples and bad English. Not worth the time at all. Don’t know where they get some of these authors.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
Almost everything in this book can be found in the books on-line. This is like a printed version of them. If you need a printed version of the bol, get this book.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
This book isn’t worth the paper its printed on. The code is all stuff from magazines and other books. I see a lot of code from Henderson’s book here. The writing is also terrible – no explanations whatsoever. Suggest spending your money on something else-just about anything, in fact.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
I wish I hadn’t wasted my money on this. I recognize much of this ‘cookbook’ code from Ken Henderson’s Guru’s Guide to Transact-SQL book. That book is well-written and full of innovative code. This one isn’t. This one is filled with horrid English and gradeschool grammar errors and code that looks like it came from somewhere else. There’s little or no explanation for much of the code. What explanations there are are frequently wrong. I will be returning this for a refund.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
When they called this a cookbook, I was expecting lots of advanced sample code, especially given that the book comes from O’Reilly. I could not be more disappointed. The examples (the few that there are in such a thin, 302 page book) are really on the level of the Books Online. There aren’t a lot of gourmet dishes in this one. Recommend you pass on it and get something like Henderson’s two Guru’s Guide books instead. Now _those_ are cookbooks!
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5