This book is the guru's guide to transact-sql, second editon. It's fundamentally the same book with cursory and very beginner level XML chapters added. This is that same old collection of magazine tricks and command line stuff that's been left behind by the majority of professionals. This would be good if you are only interested in t-sql tricks to impress your friends. Loaded with obvious axioms in computer science and unusable code that is most often more dangerous and not wise to use at any time, than anything. [...]