Beginning ASP Databases :

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Summary: Thorough and clear. Bring on the next installment
Review: Unlike most instructional books, this book is remarkably thorough and offers quizes (with solutions) at the end of each chapter. Developers aren't left to piece together concepts and try and put it all together. The tone of the book is also remarkably clear with a great emphasis on defining terms. Because of this you can begin to construct meaningful, dynamic pages in a short amount of time.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is how a book should be wriiten

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Summary: A well written book filling void in ASP Programming titles
Review: I decided to write my review, although I have not completed reading the whole book, because I am convinced more people should know about this book!

It does fill the void left among the numerous ASP programming book with two major advantages - 1. It completely answers what the title of the book would have you expect - beginning ASP database programming; 2 - It does it in the most appropriate way - with very professional teaching style which still leaves the student dignity intact.

One little remark - The author overall assumes that certain tasks (particularly the database security types) can be consulted with a DBA, and in my case, in the company I work for, there is no DBA . I believe the book would have benefited from having an appendix on the differences between NT vs. NT/SQL Server mixed type of security, but other than this, the book is just perfect!

Finally, my sincere thank you to John Kauffman and Wrox for a very practical, extremely well written book which comes just in time to answer my professional prayers!

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I just opened this book and am already solving some of the problems I have been pulling my hair out over the last few weeks in just a few hours... This author is a savior. Kudos to John Kauffman!

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Summary: The author notes......
Review: I wrote the parts of this book over the last year as handouts for the database section of my Intermediate ASP course. Then over the summer I fleshed it out to stand without my lectures. Kevin and Willis added some great sections in the second half on working with SQL stored procedures and handling various types of image files in databases. My students have been great about suggesting where to do more explaining and where to tighten up. As a result the manuscript fits quite closely to the way people think about and learn the concepts of data access in ASP.

At the end of each chapter you can take my quizzes and do some exercises (with answers) so you can test your progress. I keep lists of the errors students make in the lab, if your code doesn't run I'll bet you can solve the problem from each chapter's Common Errors list.

I'm the first to admit I'm not the handsomest model for the cover photo, but if you can get past that you'll have 800 pages of my experience in teaching people how to add information from datastores to their ASP pages.

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Summary: A great book for beginning ASP-ADO developers.
Review: This is a great book for those beginning ASP developers who would like to take their code to the next level. Kauffman has an excellent style that gives us the facts but does not intimidate novices.

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Summary: Excellent tutorial and overview of using ADO with ASP
Review: This book is a great introduction to accessing databases using ASP. Data access is via ADO, and both Jet (MS Access) and SQL Server database examples are provided. In addition to just showing how to connect to a database through ASP, the book also shows many practical examples of when and why you would want to do so, and also provides a good case study illustrating an entire web application including such features as user logins, basic security, and cookies (as well as of course plenty of database access through ADO and dynamic asp pages).

This book would be a good first book for a programmer wanting to learn ASP and ASP Database technology, as complete code samples and explanations are provided for all asp code given, but it is also a good follow up book to Beginning ASP (ver 3.0 is about to be released)

(I was a member of the technical review team for this book, so I have read every word of the book and run every code sample.)

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Summary: Must Have Book for ASP Database Development
Review: This book does a great job from start to finish on the topics of Active Server Pages and Database Design. The coverage is very thorough, yet it doesn't assume the reader has a great deal of prerequisite knowledge. This book is a must have for people just getting started building dynamic data-driven internet or intranet sites.

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Summary: Great ASP Database Book
Review: I am posting the following review I received from an ASP ListServ.

< I just got back from Barnes & Noble and got the latest book from WROX called Beginning ASP Databases. If your extremely new, or have skills that are "fair-to-middlin'" I would seriously suggest getting this book.

The guy that wrote it is an Instructor and it shows in the way the book is written. He walks you through common and simple database solutions. When you're done going through them he has a checklist of why it usually doesn't work and how it can be fixed. It is really great. It is practical, and very well written. Of course there is downloadable sample code to tear apart as well.

I really like the book because it skips all the VB syntax and stuff that the other books continually rehash over and over again. (Though I strongly suggest you get a good grip on that stuff before you tackle DB's with ASP)It goes straight to the meat of ASP database web.

WROX, if any of you guys are reading this and wanna send some cash my way for my stellar review, my email address is [e-mail]. (hehehe)

Or at least a t-shirt!

I just thought all the newbies might like to know about this book.

Thanks,

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Summary: Perfect book for a Beginner or Intermediate Developer
Review: This book is not just for a beginner....I include intermediate ASP developers as well.

This book is perfect for a beginner though. It explains stuff in not too much detail but enough to understand the full explanation of how to do real-life transactions and a good bulk of what you need to know in Web Development. I'd say this book brings you to an intermediate level after you are done. The advanced levels come in when you start doing sessions and stuff like that.

What is really nice is that this guy knows what it is like to be a developer for a company and the pains you go through. His examples are examples I've been able to understand, therefore my knowledge of ASP at work becomes better and this is the reference book I use most.

He gives a nice list of common errors in ASP which can drive you nuts if you haven't really got down all the basics..and often you forget the simplest things. On p. 232, he lists each error and a brief description of why you could possibly be getting this...and he's right. If you get any of these errors, just whip out this page and save yourself 10-30 minutes or more of frustration with ASP.


Even though .NET is here, if you are still developing in ASP, this book may be old but the syntax hasn't changed so buy it if you can still get your hands on it!

The whole book is great....a must have for even an intermedate developer......and a great beginner book also.