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Title: Programming Ado by David Sceppa ISBN: 0-7356-0764-8 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 23 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Very Disappointing: A rewrite of the ADO documentation
Comment: There's really not much to this book that isn't already in the Books Online, I'm afraid. I'm a professional programmer, I've been using DAO, ODBC, RDO, DAO for years. I bought this book looking for "best practices" for ADO. (Since there are so many ways of doing things, what are the drawbacks and advantages to each?) What I found was a lot of repetition of the help file, with occasional insights (how to optimize the Sort property, for example).
As an example, consider this: One of the trickiest things with ADO is dealing with CursorLocation, CursorType, and LockType, especially when you're not aware what OLEDB provider your code will be using. Sceppa writes: "...What's a database developer to do? With a little experience and a lot of reading, you'll develop a good feel for which combinations are possible and which aren't... [Y]ou'll probably explore different options and experiment with code, and along the way you'll inadvertently discover the answers to questions such as these." Well, Mr. Sceppa, I didn't buy the book to be told to "experiment" and hope for a discovery; these are the answers I had hoped the book would contain. If you'd spent fewer pages repeating the method and property lists, you might have been able to include some of this information.
Rating: 5
Summary: Extremely good, real world ADO coverage.
Comment: David Sceppa works in Developer Support at Microsoft, and it shows in this book. Each chapter has a section entitled "Questions that should be asked more frequently", that is full of useful information that shows his experience in the trenches.
His Visual Basic sample code is actually good quality code, unlike code in so many other books. This is important because so many developers pick up bad coding habits from sloppy sample code in books.
All in all, this is a great book, with detailed yet readable coverage of the subject.
Rating: 2
Summary: goto msdn.microsoft.com
Comment: If you dont have access to microsoft library then you can probably buy this book. its nothing but just the API reference. The foreword gives an illusion of getting interested but when the chapter comes its again refrence. and "Questions That Should Be Asked More Frequently" section is good, but i aint worth to buy the book just for that....
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Title: ADO : ActiveX Data Objects by Jason T. Roff ISBN: 1565924150 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself ADO 2.5 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself -- 21 Days) by Christoph Wille, Christian Kollier ISBN: 0672318733 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 16 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Serious ADO: Universal Data Access with Visual Basic by Robert MacDonald ISBN: 1893115194 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Programming Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference) by Charles Petzold ISBN: 0735617996 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 31 July, 2002 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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