Niels SQL Server Blog

So our book, "A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers", has now been out for about a month. However we've not had that many reviews (even though the ones we've had are good), so it was nice to come across this review the other day (especially as the review was good).

Anyway, the purpose of this post is about what the reviewer writes about the code examples:

One thing I did not do with the examples in the book was to go through the examples on a current beta and verify that everything worked as advertised. I will be surprised if all the examples work exactly as presented when run in Beta 2, and shocked if the examples all end up working with the final release of SQL Server 2005.

We've tried our best to make sure the code examples work in Beta 2. It is however hard when you have to hand in the final manuscript a couple of months before the product becomes public. Inevitably there are changes between the manuscript being handed in and release which may cause examples not to run. Therefore we have a web site where we post "stuff"/errata that we, the book authors, as well as the readers comes across. So if you have the book:

• please post a review
• if you come across errata things that doesn't work, please email us and we'll add it to the site.