On Jun 18, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Stefan Arentz wrote: > Sorry if this is a little offtopic but I am curious what other > people thing. > > Is it just me, or is the APress book 'The definitive guide to SQLIte' > not very high quality? > > First, the index is completely unusable. The index is grouped by > subject, so if you want to for example lookup where the book talks > about sqlite3_reset you first have to know that it is grouped under > the 'Prepared Query'. This is completely useless for looking up things > and I keep for a full index scan (heh) to find things. My copy of the > book mentions 'Find it faster at http://superindex.apress.com !' but > that site gives a 404.
I found the book useful as an introduction. It is also probably an even better introduction for folks that haven't fiddled with databases before. Some of the internals discussion is interesting. Beyond that it isn't useful as a reference, in large part because of the very poor index you mention. Peter _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
