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3 comments about The Administrator's Guide to Microsoft SQL Server 6.5.

1. Among the 6 MSSQL-Server books that I have waded through, everyone of them is good but not everybody has the time and resouces to commit the whole book just for a few programmer-related or administrator-related chapters. Like "Teach Yourself Transact-SQL within 21 days" that accomplishes its objectives to deliver T-SQL entirely at the programming level, this book also delivers by devoting itself essentially to administrating MSSQL-Server. There are a few distinctive features that I like about this book: 1) Every chapter is kept small and makes for assiduous reading easy at one go. 2) The presentation style is highly informal and interactive, focusing on the "you" administator and the tasks on hand. 3) Every section has a "hard-to-miss" header for easy identification of sub-topics. 4) The chapter introduction that highlights and the summary that reviews the core of the chapter without "missing the forest from the trees". 5) The size of the book (469 pages) is not intimidating or demoralizing, which is just about right.



2. It is a great book to have when you need to do some admin job and want to have a checklist of what to look out for. The book mainly draws from the authors personal experiences and so is filled with practical tips and what to watch out for. I really like the replication part...



3. This book is an excellent start to learning how to use SQL Server v6.5. It gives an overview of the features that the SQL Administrator would need to know for handling day-to-day tasks and problems with it.

   I thoroughly recommend this book. Well worth the money! Easy to understand for both beginners and advanced users.

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2 comments about MCDBA SQL Server 7 Certification Boxed Set.

1. I'm more than half way through the SQL Server Administration practice questions and I've found too many incorrect answers to recommend this book.



2. This boxed set is a pretty decent help for the test if you have some experience with SQL Server 7 already.

   The two textbooks cover the exam objectives, but tends to treat certain areas a little superficially. They are well laid out, though, and easy to read. For the most part they do a good job of explaining concepts, although it is evident that different authors have written different part of the books, as some sections are excellent, and other do the joob less impressively.

   Overall, the textbooks are somewhat mediocre - they do a good job of explainging things, but they are too superficial to cover all you need to know on the tests. Also, the test questions in these books are ridiculously easy, and are in no way representative of the real tests. The CDs are useless, as they just assemble these questions; and there are also lots of errors in the answers.

   The Self Test book, on the other hand, is excellent! The questions in this book are generally VERY hard (harder than on the test), and the answers include good and thourough explanations to both correct and wrong ansers.

   From this book, I learned a lot of details that weren't covered in the textbooks.

   With a year's experience of developing web applications against SQL Server 7 and this boxed set, I passed both tests in one try.

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