Byrne Books

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

...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!!!!!

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.

Have not really had a chance to read this book since YOU CANNOT PRINT THE BOOK after you download it. I travel and was hoping to read this on my flight immediately after downloading it and following all the instructions to verify my identity using Acrobat Reader 7.0. No luck.

Would love to write a real review of the contents of this document, but think it's more important that the end-user know that even though you have a purchased the document you will not be able to print it to hardcopy.

In 1983 the Indiana University historian Robert F. Byrnes collected essays from 35 experts on the Soviet Union -- the cream of American academia -- in a book titled After Brezhnev. Their conclusion: Any U.S. thought of winning the Cold War was a pipe dream. "The Soviet Union is going to remain a stable state, with a very stable, conservative, immobile government," Byrnes said in an interview, summing up the book. "We don't see any collapse or weakening of the Soviet system."

Barely six years later, the Soviet empire began falling apart. By 1991 it had vanished from the face of the earth. Did Professor Byrnes call a press conference to offer an apology for the collective stupidity of his colleagues, or for his part in recording it? Did he edit a new work titled Gosh, We Didn't Know Our Ass From Our Elbow? Hardly. Being part of the American chattering class means never having to say you're sorry.

I was not impressed. I wanted information on how the Byrne name evolved in Irish history. All I received in the book was what has happened with the name since it arrived in the US. Not much for the price of the book

The vocabulary list is far from complete, as many spanish idioms are not fully explained or not explained at all. Some difficult words are left out and some simple words are included. Like the other excercise book that the author has writen for El Coronel no Tiene Quien le Escriba, some of the summery sections are not written in complete sentences. Is that how one is supposed to teach Spanish students? I don't think so. This excercise book clearly shows the work of a lazy writer, and it should not be used as an aide to anyone, whether learning Spanish or not.

Mr. Byrne's wife must not have gotten a decent settlement from the bankruptcy decision against Dow Corning, so he had to write this expose of the corruption that was rampant in the synthetic chemicals industry that produced the deadly silicone breast implant.

The problem is that, even though the plaintiffs' attorneys were successful in proving to the court that silicone breast implants caused every illness from fibromyalgia to lupus to lymphoma, NO CREDIBLE SCIENTIFIC STUDY ever successfully identified an increased incidence of any disease associated with breast implants.

Mr. Byrne doesn't have the luxury of recognizing this fact. Having blown the whistle against Dow Corning, and I suspect having received triple damages for doing so, he is committed by his past actions to believing until his dying day that there was a conspiracy in the satanic halls of corporate America to destroy the female half of our species (at least the utterly vain and vapid subpopulation of women) by implanting deadly time-release silicone bombs in their [...].

Collecting IRON MAN issue 270-275, THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN: DRAGON SEED SAGA is hardly a shining story arc in Iron Man's long and checkered history. The John Byrne penned collection is illustrated in journeyman fashion by Paul Ryan (With a fill-in issue penciled in equally uninspired fashion by M.D. Bright), and inked by Bob Wiacek, and follows the dying Tony Stark (Who seems to have a strange Nervous System issue that is never fully explained...) as he is recruited/blackmailed by the Chinese Government into helping them dispose of The Mandarin, who has awakened the ancient Dragon, Fin Fang Foom, and is planning on using his ten rings of power and the Dragon to conquer China, and from there, the World. (Mwaaaa-Haaa-Haaa!!! Sorry, couldn't resist....)

The book has a nicely re-colored cover, which is pretty much all I can say is good about it. (Well, that's not entirely true....I'm a sucker for Fin Fang Foom appearances, even if he isn't wearing his tiny purple pants, which he isn't, and the final shot of The Mandarin is an awesome example of a villain getting his just desserts....) The book is just waaaay too wordy, with Byrne gassing on and on about things that we are perfectly capable of seeing with our own eyes. Let the artwork speak for itself, John! There's also a weird, sloppy mistake that drove me nuts: We're clearly shown a ship with ten aliens crashing, and the endless exposition also TELLS us that there are 10 aliens. One is killed. That makes 9. Later, Byrne tells us that there were 16, with six killed at various points since the crash, and Bright draws 10 dragons. But there's supposed to be NINE!!!!
Ugggh!
Sloppy, but the book was so bland that it really didn't make the reading experience any worse.
Skip this and go buy the IRON MAN DVD, instead.

First of all I'm a collector and know what things are worth. The first printing of this book is worth at most $20.00. even if still sealed in the black bag. Information is from Overstreet's price guide, the recognized standard in the industry. Do not pay more than that other wise you are getting ripped off.




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