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The Real MCTS SQL Server 2008 Exam 70-432 Prep Kit: Database Implementation and Maintenance |  | Creator: Mark Horninger
Publisher: Syngress
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 150090
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 696
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
ASIN: B002SDRSYS
Publication Date: April 27, 2009
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Product Description
SQL Server 2008 is the latest update to Microsoft's flagship database management system. This is the largest update since SQL Server 2005. SQL Server 2008 is a much more significant update than SQL Server 2005, because it brings increased ability to deliver data across more platforms, and thus many different types of devices. New functionality also allows for easy storage and retrieval of digitized images and video. These attributes address the recent explosion in the popularity of web-based video and server and desktop virtualization.
The Real MCTS SQL Server 2008 Exam 70-432 Prep Kit prepares readers for the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist exam: SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance.
- This is The 'Real' Microsoft Exam Prep Kit, and provides the reader with independent and unbiased exam tips and warnings everything they need to know to ensure certification success.
- Authored by Mark Horninger, a nationally recognized leader in SQL Server with over 50 Microsoft certifications to his credit; Mark knows what it takes to successfully navigate Microsoft exams.
- Complete study package offers Syngress proven pedagogy including practice exams via the book's companion site
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 My review of "The Real MCTS SQL Server 2008 Exam 70-432 Guide" April 18, 2010
Some Developer (Indianapolis, IN)
This book covers a great breadth of topics in administering SQL Server 2008. However, it doesn't have a whole lot of depth on each topic, probably just enough to cover you for the exam. So if you're looking to pass the exam and learn a little bit about a lot of topics, this is the book for you. If you're looking to become an expert DBA and know everything there is to know, this probably is not the book for you.
 You Can Do Better October 27, 2009
Kurt Survance (Portland, OR)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I will start with the positive things I can say about this book:
One: It covers the whole range of topics in the exam in some depth.
Two: If you read and study this book you are likely to pass the exam despite the serious problems of accuracy in the material.
The sections of this book were written by several different authors. Some of the sections are quite good, others are acceptable and some have been written by authors who simply did not know their subject. The lead authors are well known in the SQL Server world and certainly understand their material. I suspect that they may have been a bit embarassed by the overall quality of this book when they saw the finished product.
If you have any experience with SQL Server you will find many things stated in this book that you know are just not true. The problem is that when an author tells you something that is patently false, you have to call in question all the new things you might have learned in that section of the book. Uncertainty about the facts is not something you want to take into the exam room with you.
Each section has a 20 question quiz, but for answers you are given only the number of the question and the letter of the multiple choice answer, e.g. 1. A, 2. C, 3. B, etc. To get an explanation of right and wrong answers (which is the heart of any exam prep book) you have to download a pdf file from the publisher's website. The PDF has the same problem of uneven accuracy as the text.
To add to the uneven quality of the writing, editing and proofreading are virtually non-existant. There are obvious typos sprinkled throughout. There are sentences that make absolutely no sense.
This is not an inexpensive book. You can do better.
 Not Impressed August 26, 2009
C. Johnson (Santa Cruz, CA United States)
I'm only through Chapter 5 so far, but there are many editing errors and the final 2 practice test questions in Chapter 5 on EKM - Extensible Key Management - cover material that isn't in the text! In fact, there are several "review" questions throughout the book that question your knowledge about material that isn't covered in the chapter it purports to review. I'm just treating the tests now as an addendum to the chapter with additional information. It is making me nervous about how comprehensive the book is...buyer beware
Was the editor absent? August 18, 2009
David J. Schlum (Springfield, MO USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked up this book after reading such poor reviews on the Microsoft Press book. I am just about all of the way through it and have my exam schedule in about 3 weeks. I felt compelled to write a review because of my frustration with all of the typos. I have never read an exam book written with such poor grammar. I wish I could return this book and try out the Microsoft Press version.
A mixed bag. But the bottom line: I studied this book and passed! July 16, 2009
Ma, Tien Jui (Taipei Taiwan)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
My first read through of the book excited me on some of the cross-subject points that I never found on other books. But yes when I read it in details there're errors scattered around. Some of them are not just typo.
But it really helped me to pass the exam.
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