martin
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 Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject: The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL, Ken Henderson
 Addison-Wesley 2000
{smile}The book covers SQL Server 7.0, not even 2000, so you may wonder why I would go out and get a book that seems to be out of date. As I said, you may. I don't care, wonder away. All of Ken Henderson's books (there are three of them, and the other two are waiting on the shelf for my hungry eyes, so we'll talk about them another time) are very good reading on SQL Server. If you want to make a career out of SQL Server programming, I'd deem them requisite reading. Now I'm going off on a tangent... SQL Server programming seems to be a pretty good career, actually. It's of increasing importance for all programming, regardless of platform or language-du-jour. It's also the topic least well known, it seems. In my own opinion, I'm only barely competent in SQL Server, but when I see other people's code, oh my... I'm probably pretty much the top of the sad heap, excluding people like Ken Henderson, Joe Celko, who are again, miles ahead of me (I hate that!). So, it's definitely a moral-boosting thing, knowing more than average about SQL Server. Also not difficult, really. Ok, back to the book. Selfindulgence mode off. Eh... briefly... it's great! (3/2004)
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