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Microsoft SQL Server Black Book: The Database Designer's and Administrator's Essential Guide to Setting Up Efficient Client-Server Tasks with SQL Server Review by anonymous
Not for the beginner, tough for the intermediate
I bought this book because it is advertised as a beginner's tutorial as well as for the more experienced SQL administrator. Not only does the book not live up to this, many of the SQL Server set up steps are out of order or missing all together. In total, the manual is very confusing and tends to leave out important background data or prerequisite steps for most of the exercises. I never really made it past chapter 3, and I am an entry-level Technical Analyst with Visual Basic 5 and NT 3.5/4.0 experience. I'm sorry, Mr. Dalton really missed the mark with this one. I'm still looking for a TRUE beginner's SQL Server tutorial.