This book was so good that I bought three more so everyone on my programming team had their own copy. It has an easy, conversational style of writing that makes the topic easy to conceive.It's great for all levels and is very useful as a reference book. It also cuts through alot of techo mumbo jumbo that you find in many other technical books. My advice is to start your studying for the MCDBA in this book, get the understanding of the topic, and then use other books to fill in additional deatil.I am hoping that Rob Viera gets to work and writes his next book about SQL2000. When he does, he has at least four more sales!