Customer Reviews

Building Microsoft SQL Server 7 Web Sites

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Having worked with Access for a long time, I wanted a book that would help with constructing sites in SQL Server. This book was way too simplistic and spends far too much time on installing NT and IIS, and not enough on 'building sites with SQL Server'. Only cursory look at ASP code to actually interact with your site, almost all of it via Interdev. Index is lacking in detail, even common interface elements. If you're a very beginner, then maybe this book will be good for you, but I'd look elsewhere.

If you already know how to set up NT server, IIS and SQL, this book is not for you. There are not much useful information for serious developers.

Most of the book covers basic set-ups for NT, IIS, SQL Server. The same information that is standard with these products. What the book covers on building MS SQL Server 7 Web sites could fit in a pamphlet. Save your money!

This book walks you through the process of setting up an NT box, setting up IIS, and setting up SQL, all step-by-step.

Pretty thorough, but I ordered it mainly because of a hang-up I was having trying make my site work with SQL server.

If you have limited experience with Internet Information Server, NT, and SQL server, then this book is for you.

This book concentrates on the mechanics of setting up NT, IIS, etc. and has very little about actually building SQL server Web sites. There's almost no guidence about how to design a relational database with SQL server.

The title and the index imply a book with a large amount of useful information covering a wide range of web site development subjects but focusing on using SQL 7 on web sites. On page 261 of 436, more than halfway through the book, you are still waiting for the author to start the main subject - interesting, he never does. It is a very fast read, because there is no depth to the book. I wasted my money - don't waste yours. How did this book ever get to print?

I've been working with SQL Server since version 6.0 and have been building web sites using SQL Serer for 3 years. I reviewed this book for a friend. It's one of the worst technical books I've ever read and I'm shocked it actually made it to print. It's evident the author does not have a firm grasp on even the basics of SQL Server administraion or development.