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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
I know it's difficult to get decent reviews on technical subjects and I want to encourage tech authors to use Kindle Unlimited.
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I want to encourage publishers who buy book proposals, pay advances, and help improve manuscripts. And I want to discourage publishers who release manuscripts without any effort to improve them. So I guess my wants here are quite different from yours. However, I think the reviewing standards should be exactly the same for a self-published work, Kindle or otherwise, as for something traditionally published. I just don't think you did that.
As for the booklet itself, the first thing might be to warn a reader it doesn't give you the information to know if it for you. I say this because it isn't based on ANSI-SQL, and it isn't based on either MySQL or SQL Server, which are, I think, the two most popular databases outside the largest companies. I'm wondering if the author worked a lot with PostgreSQL. Just a guess.
My qualifications: I'd guesstimate that writing Transact-SQL is about 10 percent of my job. Does this give me the broad perspective needed to review books on learning SQL generally? Certainly not. I'm not even sure I could do an outstanding job of reviewing a pure T-SQL title. And if I could do it, it would take more time than I have given this title. But I do know one highly relevant fact: There are better information sources than this title, available for free, regardless of the SQL dialect.
WilliamBSkates - So I did not like what you call a book, and I call a booklet. However, I'm not going to post that on Amazon, and I don't think my personal opinion reflects badly on you. Outstanding technical writing may be more of a group project.