Theory-oriented book

1) The book uses many examples based on the AllElectronics database. However, the book does not provide the AllElectronics database. Nowhere on the net where you can download AllElectronics database, even on the publisher website. This book is supposed to show us how to design and run data mining on SQL Server 2005, but it fails to do that since the examples in the book are not runnable. I've read many books about Data Mining for SQL 2005. All of them have runnable code except this book.

2) At page 45, the author used the Customer_id as a data column in Customers table in database schema of a mini data mart, but later on, in the examples, he uses CustomerId as data column. In many places in the book, I found many inconsistencies between the database schema and the column names used in the query. Since the authors did not bother to provide the schema of the database, it is very confusing to keep track of what is going on after an MDX query.

Other Reviews

• Theory-oriented book
• Superficial almost to the point of uselessness
• Great Book for All Levels
• A bible for those using SQL 2005