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Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server by William R. Vaughn ISBN: 1-57231-848-1 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.06 (35 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Loose language but informative
Comment: The author uses very loose language. I don't know how a company like Microsoft can publish a book without editing for language. Lot of the sentences in the book begin with No, or Yes. Is that a way to write a professional book? William Vaughn brags too much about working at Microsoft. Ok so he works at Microsoft and he is a big shot blah blah blah... but who cares. When one pays for a book one expects to be taught on the subject and not hear about how great and big the author is. The book is filled with unnecessary nonsense and the author's stupid jokes which makes it bulky.
On the other hand this is probably the only complete and dedicated refrence for information on accessing SQL server using Visual Basic. Most of the stuff is covered in this book. It has good examples which work unlike some other books. Given no real choice I would say a VB programmer accessing SQL server needs to have this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Arrogant MS "Guru" Cant Write
Comment: This book in a nutshell is horrible. I don't know what some of these other guys in the ratings are talking about...maybe they work for MS..who knows. They might as well call this book RDO VB5 and SQL Server 7..its out of date. The jokes vaughn makes (which is the whole book) are boring...you'd fall asleep after the first chapter. To make things worse...there is absolutely no pictures showing steps or a procedure to follow to create examples..its straight through boring text. A lot of this stuff barely works since at the time ADO was being worked on a bit more. There is NOT enough information on bounding data to VB from SQL Server. Do not waste your money....this book royally stinx!!!!
Rating: 3
Summary: Badly In Need of an Update
Comment: This is not a bad book, but it is long out of date. If you're getting it to learn how to use ADO to connect to SQL Server 2000, like me while not totally useless I found most of the book dated. I would say I found only a few chapters that were relevant and then again even those were dated. If you want Vaughn go with his "ADO Examples and Best Practices" which is more up to date and is beautifully written and organised. But this book will do the trick, particularly if you have other supplemental books. I probably wouldn't buy it though if I had to do it again.
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Title: Hands On SQL Server 7 with VB6 by Wayne S. Freeze ISBN: 076151385X Publisher: Learning Express Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Microsoft Mastering: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Development (Dv-Dlt Mastering) by Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735609004 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step-By- Step. by Michael Halvorson ISBN: 1572318090 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0 by Thearon Willis ISBN: 1861003064 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: SQL Server and ADO Programming Complete by Sybex, Sybex Inc, Sybex Inc. ISBN: 0782129749 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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