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Title: Roger Jennings' Database Developer's Guide With Visual Basic 6 by Roger Jennings, Matthew Harris ISBN: 0-672-31063-5 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 22 December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (15 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Did an intern at SAMs write this?
Comment: Too many typos and problems with sample code! I can't believe Roger Jennings wrote this. Simple SQL code is flawed ie: author's use of "=>" (p.256, 261) rather than ">="; references to the sample code on the CD are incorrect -EVERYTIME! - the installation puts them folders identified as \ch03, etc. but in the book (and sometimes hardcoded in the .frm files) the path is \Ddg_vb6\Chaptr##. All of the .mdb files that have linked tables must be opened and relinked! If you don't know to do this (that is, if you are a newbie which why you are reading this book) you get an error message that is cryptic at best. I haven't opened a project file and executed it without some problem. For $60 I expected more. SAMS publishing should take a lesson in customer service and visit WROX publishing. No errata is available for this book! Why? Anyone who has written a positive thing about this book must not have opened any of the sample apps on the CD. Too bad, RJ is an excellent author but his support staff needs to learn VB because most of the samples are flawed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent in-depth real-world exploration of VB6 DB Coding
Comment: This book is big and expensive, but well worth the cost and reading effort. It covers literally everything relating to VB6 database development and is well grounded in the traditions, methods and techniques of Visual Basic database development for business generally. ADO is effectively covered and the book demonstrates impressive Front-end design techniques for both "heads-down" data entry and decision-support, online-analytical-processing. Querie and client-server database design issues are explored with an in-depth nontrivial seriousness. MTS, multidimensional data analysis and much more is also well covered. I can't recommend this book highly enough. It is a difficult but immensely rewarding work. Thank-you Roger Jennings!
Rating: 2
Summary: Everything just went over my head
Comment: I had high hopes for this book from its title. I thought, Whao! at last a book that will teach me about database programming like a developer. My joy evaporated faster than you can spell VB.
The book reads like a discussion between the writers and his/her knowledgeable peers with no room for us wannabee developers. I have reasonable proramming background including VB, but this book was all greek to me. Scattered code snippets here and there with no "real" explanations, buzz words like MTS,CORBA, NED ED or whatever without their functions or scope in reference of this book are just tip of this iceberg of problems.
I will keep this book. Someday when I learn to program serious vb database, I will come back to this book and check how many chapters I really understand. I am just sad that this book and my money did little to help me towards that goal.
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Title: Jeffrey McManus' Database Access with Visual Basic 6 by Jeffrey P. McManus ISBN: 0672314223 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 21 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Professional Visual Basic 6 Databases (Professional) by Charles Williams ISBN: 1861002025 Publisher: Peer Information Inc. Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Beginning Visual Basic 6 Database Programming by John Connell ISBN: 1861001061 Publisher: Wrox Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days (3rd Edition) by Curt Smith, Michael Amundsen ISBN: 0672313081 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 28 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: ADO Programming in Visual Basic 6 by Steven Holzner ISBN: 0130858579 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 24 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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