Hi, > the biggest advantage of Stefan Wichmann's book is that it is > available. Are there other books? > > Personally, I do not like this book (yet). I bought it late last year. > I find the structure unclear, chapters too long, convoluted > sequence of items. > What annoys me most is the large amount of references to > older versions of SAP DB including Adabas. > This book seem to have been in the making for quite some > time, and this shows. Besides, some proof-reading would not have > harmed. > But then, maybe I haven't read the book enough times yet and > again, there aren't that many books on SAP DB/MaxDB. YMMV.
I agree. And it really looks like he was working on that thing a long time. I'm happy about the references to older versions though, because we are using both 7.3 and 7.4. But you mentioned the biggest pro: I can't find books dealing with SAP DB / MaxDB. There are some articles, but they don't help you at your daily work. And although like you, I don't particularly like the style of Stefan Wichmann's book, it helps me with my daily work. That is also a big pro I guess, and the reason why I recomended it. But than, after now two years of training I can even recommend the SAP DB Reference Manual. And I remember very well how much I swore on that thing the first months :)) regards, Axel -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
