Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 448 pages
- Published by: Microsoft Press; 2 Sub edition July 12, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0735617740
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0735617742
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 2 pounds
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Programming Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2000 with XML (Pro-Developer) (Paperback)
Let's see. SQL Server 2000 has been out for quite some time now. One of the neat features of SQL Server 2000 is XML. Yet, all of the tomes written so far offer nothing more than a cursory glance. Note, that I am not criticizing the authors of these works for this oversight. Much of the blame lies in Microsoft not having the XML features complete until the very latest betas (release candidates actually, but who is counting). One of the features with the most promise, updategrams, has not been covered at all (except a mention here and there and a snippet of how the XML is formatted). Also of note is the documentation of the FOR XML EXPLICIT mode. The 13 pages on this subject give a good intro to get up and going. You will still have to pound out the queries (and probably cuss a bit), but it is nice to finally have some documentation (even the books online were poor here). A word of warning. This is not a book about how to use SQL Server 2000. It is a very specialized work on SQL Server 2000 and XML. If you want to learn SQL Server 2000, it would be best to look elsewhere. I would like to give the book a five star rating, but there are areas where I feel the material is a bit too thin. On the other hand, this work is enough to be worth the money spent if you are developing in SQL Server 2000 and XML.
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