Reviews for Refactoring SQL Applications

1. unique, useful and insightful

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, April 12rd, 2009

   This is a good book. It's not a book on configuring SQL servers, or teaching you about SQL itself. It is a book about the performance of SQL and SQL applications.
   
   The content of the book is unique because it is based on experience of the real world, not database theory. In the real world, indices don't always speed things up - and there are a myriad of reason this could be.
   
   The book works up from a gentle start, working with some simple but effective examples, and discussing theory and then real work practise. A good set of topics are covered, from the SQL queries themselves, to the applications that call SQL, through to concurrent use of a single SQL server.
   
   Reading this book will give you the wisdom of someone elses years of experience and toil - and that is truly valuable.
   
   The only things this book could improve on are relatively minor; printing on low quality paper and bound cheaply, text could do with a little more editing, and the main body of the text could avoid away some of the overly complicated code examples.