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> On a seperate note: On average how long does it take for the MCP Kit
> to arrive i.e. the wallet and other stuff? The website said 4-6 weeks!
>


Actual results vary.

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MCNGP #43
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catwalker63 wrote:

> If it's any help, I love every one of my MS Press books.
Occasionally
> dry and no book is compeletely complete but they have done a pretty
good
> job of covering the material in the objectives. They also have a
section
> of objective review that has pointers to additional material
available to
> read online.
>
> --
> Catwalker

Agreed, I think they're great, having read the books for 70-290 and
70-291.

But I finally came across a stinker: MS Press's SQL Server 2000 System
Administration Self Paced Training Kit (70-22 is the driest, most
lifeless piece of text I've ever been forced to read. So dry it has no
listed author, so lifeless that it seems like it was cut-and-paste
assembled from documentation, help files and manuals. Midway through
trudging through this book, my suspicions proved correct - I came
across a passage that was lifted word for word from a Books Online
article on the same subject.

If you want a bone-dry technical reference for SQL Server 2000 or if
you enjoy reading encyclopedias or dictionaries, buy this book. But if
you want a self-paced training / instructive course on how to admin SQL
Server 2000, steer far, far away from this piece of garbage.

did you hear "blastingfonda" <> say in
news: oups.com:

> driest, most
> lifeless piece of text

describes most MS Press books. but they are all great reference materials

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Neil MCNGP#30

- The best ideas come after you think you've run out of them.

Mine took around 1 week, shipped directly from the paper printing,
lapel-pin minting, wallet-card cutting factory in Singapore.

Neil wrote:
> did you hear "blastingfonda" <> say in
> news: oups.com:
>
> > driest, most
> > lifeless piece of text
>
> describes most MS Press books. but they are all great reference
materials

True, but this was the first time I felt I was reading something
written by a bot, not an actual human being.

did you hear "blastingfonda" <> say in
news: oups.com:

> True, but this was the first time I felt I was reading something
> written by a bot, not an actual human being.

no really, I did NOT write it...

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Neil MCNGP#30

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