Well, I’m finally done with Introduction to SQL Sever 2005 and I couldn’t be happier about it.  I usually hold on to text books because they continue to be useful in the future but, for the first time ever, I’m planning on selling this atrocity to one of the next students who have to take any of the courses that require it. I’ll probably include a print out of my personal errata file though – it’s only fair.

However, before I close of this chapter of the Textbook Follies thread, I wanted to leave you with the very last error I discovered.  This is an actual question from the end-of-chapter exercises of the last chapter I read (2nd to last in the text) and pretty much proves our theory that this was an Oracle textbook that was massaged into a SQL Server text book (bold font used to highlight the error):

5. You have been asked to load data in Oracle that is currently stored in a spreadsheet file. You will probably use the __________ tool.

{rolls eyes}

I’m so glad I’m SO DONE with this textbook.

:-j(enni)

Being at school sucks – I just wanna stay home, sleep, read and play WoW (Yup, I upgraded, and bought a copy for Nathan.... It seems there’s a lot of truth to that comparison between Geeks and Drug Dealers...)

sigh

Back to work.  At least I’ve finally started the final project for this class and will soon be done with the textbook – from – hell. :P

:-j(enni)