Rough Cuts readers - the databases are over here...

Monday, November 24 2008

A reader of the Rough Cuts edition of my book, with only 9 chapters out of 23 available so far, was not able to find the database scripts for the book's sample databases and because of this, to my great dismay, placed a 2-star review of the book on the O'Reilly site. Boy does that sting! The good news was that other than this problem of being unable to locate the database files, he seems to have liked what he's read so far and that makes me happy.

But the databases are available. They are on the the book's web site, not the O'Reilly site. That bit of information is in the book's Preface which is not yet published to the Rough Cuts.  I pointed this out in the feedback thread earlier this month, but perhaps that went unnoticed.

Anyway, if you are looking for them, they are on the Downloads page of the www.LearnEntityFramework.com site.

There are two databases that the book uses for its samples and you can download scripts to build either a SQL Server 2005 version or SQL Server 2008 version for each one.