I understand that the focus of this book is on development, not system administration, and that not every programmer doing self-study at home will have access to Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000. It makes sense that for self-study, you'd want to use tools like WebMatrix and the MSDE.

However, any journeyman developer, especially one who's running his own small shop, will still need to have a thorough understanding of how a typical ASP or ASP.NET SQL Server database system would be set up in a real environment.

This is the second Wrox book I've been through on the topic of ASP.NET. I am doing all the book exercises on a workstation which is part of a Domain controlled by a test server which is running Windows Server 2003 with Active Directory, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET, which is probably a much closer approximation of how a real ASP.NET database development/production environment would be set up.

The only reason I was able to figure out how to adjust the security settings so that the ASP.NET applications could connect to the SQL Server databases, was because of Imar Spaanjaars’ excellent documentation on his own web site.

It seems to me that every Wrox book which touches on the topic of ASP or ASP.NET SQL Server database development would benefit tremendously from having an Appendix, written by Imar, that describes the security settings necessary to run ASP and/or ASP.NET SQL Server database applications in a typical development/production environment. I see you’ve already used him for a couple of books on Dreamweaver. Please consider having him write an Appendix on security settings that could be appended to any Wrox book that touches on the topic of ASP or ASP.NET and databases.