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Title: Professional Visual Basic 6 Databases by Charles Williams ISBN: 1861002025 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67
Rating: 4
Summary: More approachable than its "Beginning VB 6 Database" sibling
Comment: I have read both this book and its series "predecessor" by John Connell, starting with Connell. While there is considerable overlap between the two, as other reviewers here have remarked, I'd choose this one if I were only to buy one book. Not that Connell is not a good book; it's just that I found this one more readable where it covered the same material. The "Professional" appellation should not frighten off beginning to intermediate readers, nor convince them that they must start with the "Beginning" title first.
After reading the introductory, "basics" chapters of this book I came away with a much better understanding of such things as connection strings, ADO objects, and basic SQL syntax than after reading the Connell book. My major gripe about many programming books--and I have been devouring them in bulk over the last two years--is that they often launch into code examples without adequately and systematically explaining the various methodologies involved.
For instance, I don't think I have ever read elsewhere a better overview of the ADO Object Model (Chapter 7)--it's well done because it's covered in an organized and systematic fashion that is appropriate for this book's target audience (the intermediate programmer who might be new to some of the technologies presented here but who is not to programming per se) rather than as a chaotic catalog of example after example--though there are plenty of those as well where appropriate.
Great content aside, another niggling gripe I have with this and other programming books, perhaps more often with Wrox (maybe it's just a sample error because I read more of them,) is the presence of annoying grammatical errors. If only someone could teach the editors (are they awake out there?) how to use semicolons, because sentences smash into each other like minivans at the supermarket with irritating regularity. The copy editors, who are supposed to fix typos, also must be asleep at the switch. We are entitled to expect better from a forty-dollar book. But just grit your teeth and focus on the content.
In short, if you already know something about SQL, database design, and VB, but need help making them all work together, I think this one is the ONE you should buy if you can only buy one.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Book I have on ANY Topic
Comment: I have been programming Access/VB/SQL Server Database for 3 years. I read this book and realized how much I didn't know. Mosts books I have purchased end up gathering dust or serve as a quick reference or code sampler. This book went far beyond that in covering topics and conceptial design issues I have not seen in any other books. Finally it uses examples that as an industry programmer, I can relate to. Its case study at the end will walk you through setting up an e-commerse web sight using MTS, ASP, and SQL Server. Excellent, Relevant choice of examples.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent Single Source For SQL Server 7.0 Programming
Comment: Excellent Single Source For SQL Server 7.0 Programming
I've been a programmer long enough to know that no one book could "have it all." First the plusses. The book is well organized and very readable. The section on normalization is most understandable that I have encountered. I've done three-tier applications the hard way - UNIX, and I've never tackled a WEB project before. Now I am confident that I can tackle an "n-tiered" application with the Microsoft DNA without embarrassing myself. This book has armed with me the "Hello, world!"'s that are necessary to get some real work done.
The minuses are not show stoppers. Wrox doesn't have a CD so you have to download and unzip the source code. There are some typos in the samples. And, I hate to get picky on semantics, "Professional" programmers avoid data controls. Most text books use data controls, but a rookie should know that they are never acceptable in a production program. At best, we use them for "proof of concepts" and, sometimes, to build cut-and-paste code. Finally, if you're looking for help using VB 6's Data Access Tools with Oracle, this book will be of minimum value. For Oracle, the best book - the only book, as far as I know, is "Oracle Programming With Visual Basic" by Snowdon. It's VB 5 oriented, but it is useful.
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Title: Beginning Visual Basic 6 Database Programming by John Connell ISBN: 1861001061 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic 6.0 Business Objects by Rockford Lhotka, Rocky Lhotka ISBN: 186100107X Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: ADO 2.6 Programmer's Reference by David Sussman ISBN: 186100463X Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Beginning Visual Basic 6 Objects by Peter Wright ISBN: 186100172X Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming by Robin Dewson ISBN: 1861005237 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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