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Title: Mastering C# Database Programming by Jason Price ISBN: 0-7821-4183-8 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Tutorial with lots of screenshots
Comment: The book has a tutorial style with tons of screenshots. It works through examples step by step with lots of code and not much exposition. If you want an on-rails guided tour to the .NET database APIs with C#, this book is for you. For me I would rather go with an introductory style which gives an overview of an entire API. An example is the chapter three section on SQL, which is thirty pages long. It only veers off the rails twice, once to talk about less than, greater than, equals to, etc. and another time to talk about and, not and or. The chapter spends only half a page on insert, delete and update. If you wanted to learn SQL from scratch you couldn't do it from this chapter, and if you already knew SQL, you would skip this chapter. So I'm not sure what the purpose is.

Conclusion, if you like "on-the-rails" tutorials and you want to learn .NET database programming that way, this book is for you.

Rating: 5
Summary: Should be more than 5 stars
Comment: I bought this book and the same author's Visual C# .NET book, also from Sybex.

I found the introductory chapter on SQL very useful, since I didn't know SQL to begin with; I found it contained everything I needed to know to get going with databases. Just enough without going overboard!

This book teaches the basics of databases, and then plunges in to teach how to use C# to access a database. The book also teaches advanced data access using C#, such as caching data in an ADO.NET program.

Rating: 5
Summary: Use it every day
Comment: I have this book and the author's other C# book from Sybex. I didn't know ADO.NET before buying this book and now I'm an expert. I use this book every day too!

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