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Summary: Not a bad beginner's book
Review: However, I quickly got through the book. Plus I need to know more advanced material for my internship that's not difficult but the book doesn't cover, such as creating an Excel sheet with ASP.Also, their forms examples did not work for me, they gave me error messages when I tried them. I had to go online and read an ASP.NET tutorial to figure out how to get info out of a text box and use it as a variable in a SQL statement. That is what companies want to do on their web sites, they don't want static data like most beginner's examples have.
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Summary: Don't buy unless you know your programming talent
Review: This is a great book for those who are not too aware of Databases, and ASP. This book is well integrated with Microsoft Access and MS SQL Server. There are many good examples in the book, but don't count on them to work all the time. I had a hard time debugging the code in the book. But in the end the extra hard work paid off. I would recommend to use this book with Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0.
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Summary: Good Companion to Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0
Review: Well written, worth the money. Get Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0 to make a great matched pair. Items that are in one book may be missing from the other and vice versa.
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Summary: This book started it all!
Review: I can't say enough about how good this book is. I started my web-development career with this book, and I haven't stopped. When I first read this book, I was a broke, and I worked on fixing computers for a living. Now, I am working for a large web-development firm. I owe it all to John Kauffman and this book for getting me started!
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Summary: well written thoughtful book -- i use ultradev
Review: hey i wanted to log on and give this book a great recommendation. i bought it based on recommendations here and it was perfect for me....im new to asp and ive been hacking out a few professinal sites in ultradev since it was released but i felt i was missing some information and was having trouble resolving erros because i didnt understand some of the underlying structure pr really understand what the heck ADO was. i was concerned this book might be too hard but i HAVE to say the authors style is very very good. i really like the way at the end of each chapter he goes over what mistakes his student always make...sometime i find authors are more interested in making themselves seem smart than actually teaching me...u just get the feeling this guy gives a damn about teaching you. anyways i could go on and on but ive learned alot and books like this should be reviewed well so here i am to give this guy the kudos he deserves. thanx dude
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Summary: Beginning???
Review: Found this book very tough to get started on ASP with. I consider myself an advanced web designer and I'm pretty competent with VB, but constantly had to reread sections to figure out what the heck he was trying to say. Several of the book examples were tough to get to work also
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Summary: Very, very good book on ASP - Average for MS SQL Integration
Review: If you are planning on using a SQL backend to study this material, then I suggest reading up on the Basics of SQL Administration first. You should now things like identities, seeds, indexes, and constraints. You will have to import and modify the databases' properties first. Then, you will have to account for the MS Access SQL language that is supplied and convert it to true SQL language in order for the code to work. This is nothing new for the ASP series of books from WROX. Being a DBA, this wasn't a big deal for me. However, for beginning DB users, it imagine it will be a hendrance. On the flip side, this book is extremely well written and explains what each piece of code is doing in every example given. I would suggest reading Beginning ASP first if you have little or no ASP experience. It is as well written as this book and goes into detail about form creation and manipulation. This book tends to pick up where Beginning ASP left off.
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Summary: Recommended
Review: This text clearly explains how to establish database connections and handle recordsets. If you're not sure what cursor type you should use when opening a recordset, or how to make dsn-less database connection etc- this book is for you. A good book for the beginner to buy in conjunction with Wrox's Beginning Active Server Pages. Not 5 stars because a bit expensive in this part of the world.
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Summary: Easy to read and digest.
Review: This is a great book with so many answers for questions I had for long time. The DSNless techniques and many other tricks I never knew before , made hard things possible..
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Summary: Should have been made Professional ASP database
Review: Beginning ASP database covers in depth ADO programming for the ASP developer (although its more coverage of SQL is a little slim). Overall it does cover clearly everything one ought to know about ASP ADO programming. The focus of the book is however ASP databases and there is little coverage of ASP object generally unless they specifically relate to the topic. While by no means a bad book, I think that WROX would have been much better inspired to make a Professional ASP database by the same author instead of the current book. The problem with this book is that the tone is that of a "beginning" book with a slow step by step approach. However, the topic is fairly specialized (since it is not enough as first and only book to learn ASP - it does not cover enough other uses of ASP) and more importantly it assumes too much knowledge for the true beginner (it does assumes for instance that the reader is already familiar with VBScript). If you already have some programming experience or know some asp and need to have reference covering such topics as ADO programming, stored procedures, etc. this is a good book for you providing that you don't mind to be talked to like a real beginner. If on the other hand, you are looking for a first asp book, this is not the one.
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