Prima's Guide to Seagate Crystal Reports 8

Author: Jill K. Howe, Scott M. Spanbauer, The Bridgebuilder Company
List Price: $39.99
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ISBN: 0761524835
Publisher: Premier Press (May, 2000)
Sales Rank: 101,224
Average Customer Rating: 2.4 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 1 out of 5
Keep Looking
I've now had this book for over 6 months and have yet to find an answer to any question I may have. This book is essentially the Help files in printed form and gives extremely basic information on how to work the GUI. There's no in-depth explanations and any advanced items are covered in about a paragraph.

Very disappointing.

Rating: 2 out of 5
Very basic, so this book should be in the For dummies series
This book is intended for someone new to computer science. For example the book spend many pages explaining what is a database, what is a DSN (Data Source) and how to configure it in Windows...

Keep looking please!

Rating: 1 out of 5
Keep Looking -- Don't Buy This Book
I purchased this book before doing enough review of it. Hopefully this review will help you to make a better decision ... and keep looking!

The book was not thorough enough and lacked much needed depth. The author seems to know her stuff, but there were holes in the coverage of material. The book also had numerous spelling and grammatical errors.

I think there are better books out there on Crystal Reports. One that I found and like alot is: Seagate Crystal Reports 8: The Complete Reference, by George Peck.

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