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Title: Serious ADO: Universal Data Access with Visual Basic by Robert MacDonald ISBN: 1-893115-19-4 Publisher: APRS Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.68 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent for the Experienced VB Database Developer!
Comment: "Serious ADO" is written by Rob Macdonald, an independent software expert specializing in enterprise system design using Windows, COM(+), ADO, and MTS. The book is based on the authors real world database development experience. It is designed for intermediate to advanced Visual Basic developers. The book teaches how to use ADO to build component-based systems and web applications as well as traditional client server systems.
The first part of the book is titled "ADO In Depth". It provides detailed coverage of ADO's components and how they work. Real world code examples are provided for better understanding of all concepts. Oracle and SQL Server are covered, including the major non-traditional data sources. Key concepts such as locking, transactions, connection pooling, and marshalling are covered.
Part two is titled "ADO at Large". It explains how ADO is used in real world scenarios. Topics include advanced user interface creation, binding processes, Data Environment, and Microsoft Transaction Server. It shows how to use ADO to build components that benefit from MTS and COM+.
If you are an intermediate to experienced Visual Basic database developer, then this book is a must.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good ADO Book for Visual Basic 6.0
Comment: This is a good book that explains the intimate details of ADO but the format of book leaves a little to be desired. On most pages the 3/4 of the page has the text and the left 1/4 of each page is blank or contains subheadings. There is no clear-cut separation between 1 subject and the next. While reading this book, if you do not pay close attention, the subject will change. The author clearly knows ADO and how to apply it to Visual Basic 6.0 but it appears that he repeats the text in several parts of the book especially in chapter 3 - RecordSets with SQL Data Sources. Maybe it was my imagination but several times I had a sense of Deju-Vu. Didn't I read about this earlier in the book? Chapter 4, 5, and 7 (Explicit Connections, Explicit Commands, and Disconnected RecordSets) are very good and you will want to read these chapters religously. Installation of the files on the CD caused some problems on my PC, which has Windows XP Home Edition. If you like Shakespeare, you'll like the examples in this book. Beware the Index is not in synchronization with the actual page numbers.
Rating: 3
Summary: Catastrophically disfigured index
Comment: This would be an exceptional piece of work if it hadn't been badly damaged by an index whose references seem consistenly to be off by two or three pages. As a result it's good as a tutorial but almost useless as a reference work.
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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: SQL Server and ADO Programming Complete by Sybex Inc, Sybex Inc. ISBN: 0782129749 Publisher: Sybex Inc Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic Developer's Guide to ADO by Mike Gunderloy ISBN: 0782125565 Publisher: Sybex Inc Pub. Date: 20 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: ADO Examples and Best Practices by William R. Vaughn ISBN: 189311516X Publisher: Apress Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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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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