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Title: Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 4 in 21 Days by Michael Amundsen, Curtis Smith ISBN: 0-672-30832-0 Publisher: Macmillan Computer Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (10 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Very good.
Comment: This book and "Teach yourself Visual Basic in 21 days" make it a perfect combination. Anybody serious about getting started and going intermediate with VB need to get these two books. I highly recommend them. The use of summaries, quizes, and projects make this book an excellent tool for any beginner VB'er. Take it from me, this is how I got started and still use the books

Rating: 4
Summary: Many errors - overall good
Comment: This is a good book provided you've used "Teach yourself Visual Basic in 21 days" by Ori & Nathan Gurewich. But, there are too many errors in the book. I suspect microsoft made some changes that the authors did not incorporate. For example Dim dyn1 as Dynaset will not work. Dynaset has been replaced with RecordSet. But I couldn't get the Filter command to work with RecordSet and I couldn't use the dynaset set that the authors have in the book. Overall it's a good book for reading but useless to practice the programs with - that's why I rate it a 7. PS, on day 4 use Biblio.mdb instead of Books.mdb. There is no books file. Good Luck Kimberly Brugier

Rating: 4
Summary: Good reference material...
Comment: Most books talking about database programming with Visual Basic give only cursory treatment to programming using the ODBC API. They rely, instead on using the "preferred" methods of ADO, RDO, and DAO. However, when your dealing with an ODBC driver that only supports level 1 functionality, you can run into trouble using those technologies (as I did). Then, you are left with no alternative but to code directly against the API. I have a stack of database programming books, and this is the only one to give any real coverage to using the API to read and write data from databases (how often do you actually need to query what functions the ODBC Driver supports anyway?). My thanks to the author.