Customer Review: I bought Harold's book to help me move from XHTML to XML and to handle data with PHP which does not fit well in a relational database / SQL. This book bogs down quickly in very long explanations & examples which could have been a fraction of the size. I think it has good coverage, but Harold... more info
Customer Review: The Pro SQL Server 2008 XML book dives right into the details of XML from the first page. This book was written by a developer for developers, and the author goes to great lengths to demonstrate all the concepts presented in the book. In my opinion, this book scores highly in many areas. The... more info
Customer Review: I have had this book for almost a month now. This book is painful to get through. I can usually get through a technical book within a week and try some examples. I started reading this book front to back and did not skip any sections. I am not a NOOB when it comes to XML so I found this... more info
Customer Review: Messy. I have been reading lessons; I haven't got any big picture. I did not know why it worked like that. The only place I could look for "big picture" was usually lab, at the end of each chapter. This book also lacks reference to ADO.NET object and interface model which is essential in... more info
Customer Review: I started my VBA programming from zero for my department needs by using Google search. Although the job could be done, the process was time consuming (for search) and left questions unanswered.
If you want to save yourself time then this is a good book to start with. The layout is pretty good,... more info
Customer Review: I bought this book after reading Dave's articles on UML modelling for XML schemas hoping to learn more about the technique. So I was really interested in a quarter of the book but I still read the whole book. Overall, its a good book as an overview to the whole XML modelling approach and it is... more info
Customer Review: I'm a developer with a degree in CS and 10 years' experience. I bought this book for an SQL Server 2000 project, because I've got more experience with mysql which has slightly different syntax and doesn't support stored procedures. I guess I just assumed this book would contain query syntax... more info
Customer Review: I guess I am rushing to judgement - but in the first 10 pages I read, there were about 8 typos - so I am giving this a 2 stars for now. Will update my review/rating as I go along.
Customer Review: I tend not to buy too many technical books because they are usually written by someone who had the time to write them not someone that knows anything. They are usually out of date, and quite often only tell you what you can find in man pages anyway. Still you sometimes pick up a few tips that you... more info
Customer Review: This book suffers badly from two problems: multiple authors and padding. Padding makes some of the sections too "chatty", while paradoxically failing in providing a good explanation of the material. Multiple authors makes the quality of the content sections very variable. At best they are adequate,... more info
