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Title: Database Developer's Guide With Delphi 2 (Sams Developer's Guide) by Ken Henderson ISBN: 0672308622 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.25

Rating: 5
Summary: The best Delphi book I have found
Comment: I have all the Delphi books out there - Cantu, Calvert, etc. - and none of them compare to this one. It's written better than 99% of the technical books you will find. It is also jam-packed with useful technical info. No other Delphi book compares.

The best things about this one are:

* Detailed instructions on connecting to and working with the leading DBMSs. Just the other day this saved my behind with an Oracle problem I was having.

* The components chapter. I couldn't believe how easy it was to make data bound components.

* The tutorial. I worked through this and learned oodles of things that I didn't know about Delphi (I've been using Delphi since version 2).

It's just a great book that belongs in your library if you're serious about Delphi.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book for learning database programming in DELPHI
Comment: I can say that I am very happy I bought this book, because this was my entry point to the world of DELPHI. This book explain (very detail), all steps necessary for completing a database application. The first step: database design, then creating database objects (tables and queries etc.) and finally building a DELPHI application based on the database. What I dislike about this book is, that the author uses PARADOX database that is not very popular in the database world. He could use ACCESS database for example, or client-server oriented database server. I wonder why the author dedicated to client-server database application a small part of this book, according to large part dedicated to single-user database application. Anyway, this is an excellent book for those who want to learn how to build a database application starting from scratch.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent tutorial
Comment: I don't write many good technical book reviews. Most books just don't deserve it. This one, however, is an exception.

I bought this book because a good portion of it is dedicated to a tutorial that shows how to develop a complete database application using Delphi. I have never seen such a detailed, complete tutorial in a technical book. It spans some seven chapters and takes you from literally nothing but a concept of what the application might to do a polished product. I've never seen anything like it in a book before.

Some highlights:

1. The interleaving of the figures and commentary is excellent. It feels like you've got the instructor right there in the room with you. You get the sense that the author has built an application or two.

2. The prose is friendly, yet nitpickingly technical and complete. Useful tips abound. Usually, you don't get both technical excellence and good writing in the same computer book. Not true with this one. This is some of the best technical writing I've ever read.

3. The approach taken to show user-interface design is right on the money. It's better than many books dedicated to the subject. Henderson apparently comes from the same school of thought as Microsoft. His recommendations follow those of the book "The Windows User Interface Guidelines for Software Design" (from Microsoft Press), though his book predates this book.

I also really love his approach to database design and data modeling. It is a nice cross between the approach C.J. Date's books take (e.g., Foundation for Future Database Systems - Addison-Wesley) and those of Joe Celko (e.g., Data and Databases - Morgan-Kaufmann). His approach is practical, yet grounded in solid theory. Here is a database wiz who knows both sides of the business -- the high-brow theory and the stuff that pays the bills.

4. The CD is a great value in and of itself. In addition to providing the full source code for the book (there must be thousands of lines of it), it also contains a number of extra utilities and components that have value a part from the book. I would have paid what I did for the book just to get the CD.

The book is simply a masterpiece that has stood the test of time. The naming conventions chapter, the report writing chapter, the chapter on the BDE, the one on creating your own data-aware components, etc., make for some of the best technical writing out there on Delphi or any other language tool.

If you are really interested in database programming with Delphi, this is the one book to have. It tells you everything you need to know to build robust, scalable, polished Delphi applications for the complex world of Windows.

I liked this one so much that I recently paid big $$ to get the sequel to this book (Client/Server Developer's Guide with Delphi) from a collector. I'll post a review of it as soon as I finish going through it. Already I'm learning tons.

One last comment: I loved the Epilogue. No one has ever said it better!