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Originally Posted by Difflugia
I downloaded and flipped through it and it's pretty bad. The small amount of prose is as incomprehensible as the blurb, but the bulk of the book is listings of database scripts with little explanation.
I'd be mad if I paid $40 for the book or if I had to maintain his database code after he got fired.
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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
What's even worse is that all the sql and ddl examples are formatted as full justify! So you end up with huge spaces in between everything making it difficult to read. The examples are highlighted so they could have easily been formatted correctly.
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I'm chastened. In the future I will post books that have material "over my head" only when they are highly rated.