Ken Hendersons books

Any feedbacks on these 2 books that I intend on buying by Ken Henderson
The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals : Can this be
compared to Kalens Inside SQL Server 2000 ? I already have that...I have the first one and Kalen's book and both are great. Don't know about
the second one.
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"Hassan" <fatima_ja@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Any feedbacks on these 2 books that I intend on buying by Ken Henderson
> The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
> The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals : Can this be
> compared to Kalens Inside SQL Server 2000 ? I already have that...
>|||I thought Ken's second book (on architecture) wasn't
available yet.
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"Ray Higdon" <rayhigdon@.higdonconsulting.com> wrote in message
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> I have the first one and Kalen's book and both are great. Don't know about
> the second one.
> --
> Ray Higdon MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA
> --
> "Hassan" <fatima_ja@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eA9aynKhDHA.452@.TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Any feedbacks on these 2 books that I intend on buying by Ken Henderson
> >
> > The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
> > The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals : Can this be
> > compared to Kalens Inside SQL Server 2000 ? I already have that...
> >
> >
>|||The Guru's guide to T-SQL is written for SQL Server 7, although it isn't
explicitly stated in the book anywhere. That means you miss out on the new
features in SQL Server 2000, like functions, and also that there are a
number of suggestions in the book that are either wrong in SQL 2000 or
irrelevant.
Ken Henderson has also written The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored
procedures, which is for SQL 2000. I haven't read that but another good book
for T-SQL on SQL Server 2000 is "Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000"
by Itzik Ben-Gan and Tom Moreau.
"Hassan" <fatima_ja@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Any feedbacks on these 2 books that I intend on buying by Ken Henderson
> The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
> The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals : Can this be
> compared to Kalens Inside SQL Server 2000 ? I already have that...
>|||All of Ken Hendersons books are good.. His newest book is more like Kalens
in that it covers at lot of internals..However there is no overlap between
Inside SQL and SQL Architecture.... In any case, Ken does some amazing
things in the new book.
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"Jacco Schalkwijk" <NOSPAMjaccos@.eurostop.co.uk> wrote in message
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> The Guru's guide to T-SQL is written for SQL Server 7, although it isn't
> explicitly stated in the book anywhere. That means you miss out on the new
> features in SQL Server 2000, like functions, and also that there are a
> number of suggestions in the book that are either wrong in SQL 2000 or
> irrelevant.
> Ken Henderson has also written The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored
> procedures, which is for SQL 2000. I haven't read that but another good
book
> for T-SQL on SQL Server 2000 is "Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server
2000"
> by Itzik Ben-Gan and Tom Moreau.
> "Hassan" <fatima_ja@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eA9aynKhDHA.452@.TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Any feedbacks on these 2 books that I intend on buying by Ken Henderson
> >
> > The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
> > The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals : Can this be
> > compared to Kalens Inside SQL Server 2000 ? I already have that...
> >
> >
>|||Former is excellent. Haven't seen the latter, but anything by Ken is highly
likely to be excellent.
> Any feedbacks on these 2 books that I intend on buying by Ken Henderson
> The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
> The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals : Can this be
> compared to Kalens Inside SQL Server 2000 ? I already have that...
>
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