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| Hi Greg,
I agree with your assessment on the MS Press books and bad
examples. However, if there is a silver lining, I found
that when working through their examples and having them
not work, I became an expert in the topic trying to get it
to work. I know that's not the intention but hey, it
worked.
Also, I think (just my opinion), that they try to do
examples to keep the topic within scope of the book and
not stray the reader into more advanced/different topics.
For instance, I came across an instance where the web app
would query a dbase for the highest number used as an
Identity in a SQL dbase, added 1 to it, then inserted a
new record. I gotta have faith that Microsoft doesn't see
this as a good practice....
Jason
>-----Original Message-----
>Can anyone tell me why Microsoft continually show bad
examples when
>developers are trying to study for exams. I make a point
of the good
>old username 'sa' and blank password yet the continually
show examples
>and have downloads with such code. I also think they show
too many
>examples with sql strings and dont use stored procedures.
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>
>Also why do we continually see poor exam books - surely
Microsoft
>Press should be able to produce a better standard of book
than at
>present. The amount of errors and code samples that dont
work is
>pretty high as well as typos on diagrams and screen shots.
>
>Cheers
>Greg
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