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Title: MCSE: SQL Server 2000 Design Study Guide (Exam 70-229) by Marc Isreal, Steven Jones, Marc Israel, J. Steven Jones, Steve Jones ISBN: 0-7821-2942-0 Publisher: Sybex Inc Pub. Date: 20 August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: 70-229 SQL 2000 Design
Comment: Good book, but certainly not the best book SYBEX has produced. I used SYBEX books for all 6 exams for MCSE WinNT, and passed all 6 the first time. Now I am pursuing MCDBA SQL 2000 certification. I used SYNGRESS to study for exam 70-228 "SQL Admin" and passed, however due to the unavailablility of a SYNGRESS book for 70-229 "SQL Design" I bought this SYBEX book AND FAILED THE EXAM.
The book lacks enough 'hands on' excersizes, particularly regarding using views, stored procedures, and user-defined functions. Also, as you read through the book you can 'feel' it was co-authored. Much of the book is somewhat hard to read, but the chapters on Accessing, Inserting, and Updating Data are very easy to read with many hands-on exercizes. The chapter reviews are pretty useless for actually 'reviewing' the material, as it really only lists the topics covered and provides very little summary information of what was actually covered in the chapter. SYNGRESS books provide an excellent "2 minute drill" at the end of each chapter to review the details, but this SYBEX book does not contain any such tool.
The SYNGESS/Osborne book for MCDBA exam 70-229 "SQL Design" is due out in November, and I would recommend considering the SYNGRESS book before this SYBEX book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book, but not very relevant to the exam.
Comment: This is an excellent book written at the "professional beginner" level discussing issues of database design and planning with SQL server 2000. Excellent design and configuration tips, Good explanations of difficult concepts, however, the practice tests are somewhat lacking, and while it covers all of the relevant material, the book fails somewhat as a study aid specifically for the 70-229 exam, where many other Sybex books excel. The book is well worth the money as a useful tool for a relatively new SQL 2000 DBA, however, don't rely on it too heavily for the test.
Rating: 4
Summary: The best book to start
Comment: This book was a good way to start studying for the exam. After finishing the book you are almost ready.
Maybe the following areas wasn't completly covered:
Cursors (it is foccused on T-SQL syntax, other books will describe ADO and ODBC cursors as well).
The topic Retrieve, filter, group, summarize, and modify data by using Transact-SQL requires even more examples and more questions. This is a huge topic.
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