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MCSE System Administration for Microsoft SQL Server 7

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I am glad my bookstore has an exchange policy because I returned this book like it was a bad disease! I replaced it with Rick Sawtell's SQL Server 7 admin study guide.

The CBT is a joke, it is more a discussion on SQL 7 capabilities and features. There is no actual training, you could learn the same thing on the Microsoft website!

The interactive web-site is also a joke. There are sample test questions for each section of the book. The number of questions range from 3 to 8. Yeah, that will really help me pass the exam!

Do not, under any circumstance buy this book! Amazon should consider dropping such terrible books.

...too bad there was not an option for 0 stars!

I REALLY WISH that I had read the comments here at Amazon before I purchased the book. Everything said here is true! In my haste, I anxiously bought this book since it was the only one left at my local bookstore... I should have realized why it was left. I will never buy from Prentice Hall again! Information was inaccurate, not updated, syntax was aweful, CBT was useless, etc, etc. Do publishers no longer care what they are publishing? How does this J. Byrne author feel knowing that they knowingly are ripping people off!!!! The publisher should fess up and offer a refund to all people who have purchased this book at their web site!

My letter to them will be going into the mail tomorrow!

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!

Not only is the information contained in this book erroneous and unclear, the CBT CD isn't worth ten cents! It is based on Beta 3 and is a marketing ploy to get you to buy this book. No more Prentice Hall books for me! I'm a Sybex gal!

I bought this book several months ago because it was one of the first SQL Server 7 exam guides to hit the market. I would have returned it if I hadn't waited so long to start reading it. I can put up with a few scattered typographical errors, but this book is full of them. I really wonder if anyone read this book before it went to press. Among the most glaring errors, it actually looks like someone did a search-and-replace to change "login" (one word) to "log in" (two words). It appears throughout the text as two words, even in the index! Imagine the frustration of reading paragraph after paragraph of references to the "syslog ins" system objects. I was forced to put the book down. It was simply too uncomfortable to read.

If I decide to pursue the new test, I'll buy something else to study with.

The title says it all. The time you spend to check out all those details that are missed in the book and correct all those mistakes could worth the 50 bucks extra to get the official one from Microsoft.

This book is definitely not for passing the exam because the BCP parameters still in 6.5 format. Unbelievable !!!

I also like the other reviewer have just finished taking the Beta Exam. I understand the effort to get a book out to address the subject but sometimes being first is not equated with being good. This book is poor as it is based on (as far as I can tell) Beta 1. Not good. Additionally, the "free stuff" and web site mentioned are a joke and non-exsistent.

Please spend your money on the SQL Server Documentation Set and read the Intro, Admin Companion,etc. Will do you well.

Cheers

Well, I just returned from taking the beta exam. I bought this book in spite of the bad reviews because it was the only one available. My mistake!

I guess you can give Mr. Byrne and the publisher a little credit for trying to get something out early. But, in doing so, rather than putting together a solid effort, they published a huge number of stupid mistakes and outright misinformation.

The beta had 113 questions. Perhaps 30 or so were addressed well in this book. Look elsewhere for better results - that should not be hard to do!

I like the structure and format of this book (that's the 2 stars for). This book is based on the bata version the the SQL Server, a lot of materials were smiliar to sQL SERVER 6.5 I suggest all of you hold off for their revised edition.

Written on beta 1, have a lot of differences with shipmenent version, a mistake or two per page. Nothing common between test question, their answers and exam sinopsis.