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Summary: Wrox Publishing Scores Again!
Review: If you aren't familiar with Wrox Publishing (great books!), Wrox has a learning tree on the back of most of their books. It helps developers determine the appropriate path and books to read to learn a specific technology. As a developer, I can't stress the importance of this enough. I therefore feel it's important to suggest that while this is a Beginning ASP book, you should have some experience coding straight Active Server Pages (no database stuff) and if you like Wrox, I highly suggest Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0 or 3.0 (I reviewed 2.0 if you need help determining which version book to get). If I hadn't gone through Beginning ASP 2.0 before doing this book, I wouldn't have gotten as much out of it. This is because the author immediately dives in to ADO in Chapter 3, assuming you are ASP-ready!Having said that, this is a great book. I was familiar with Microsoft data access techniques (ADO, Jet, SQL language) and a little with ASP but I really needed a book to see how they all tied together. The author goes through SQL as does most any database book, but at least he uses it in the context of integrating with your ASP web pages. A great part of this book is showing how you would actually implement recordsets. In other words, he doesn't say "Here's how to bring back recordsets", he says "Here's how to bring back recordsets and display the information usefully in an ASP page". Cookies, Errors, Stored Procedures, and a full case study are all presented in later chapters. The case study was extremely helpful. One other thing I think you may find helpful-- don't feel left out if you are only developing on a workstation with no server right now. You can still use this book. Chapter 2 is dedicated solely to showing how you can work with this entire book using/installing Personal Web Server, IIS, ADO on any Microsoft operating system, including Windows 95/98, 2000, Or NT with no server involved.
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Summary: great book
Review: i'm a CS student and I was a bit bored during my winter break.. so I got this book. it took me about 3-4 weeks to finish it and I think it's a great intro to asp/ado. everything is crystal clear and there are planty of examples on each section/chapter. all i have to say, is that it's a perfect technical book to read and i will definetly buy any other book by John Kauffman..
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Summary: Prepare to buy more books
Review: Overall this was a good book, but if you're like me (I'm more of a c++ programmer), you may find it difficult to just dive right in. I found the code examples kind of tedious to follow. If you're a beginner, this book will give you a good overview of how asp works, but more than likely you may have to investigate buying some other books to help suppliment your understanding of how to use some of the objects, etc. I think that every asp programmer needs to have a handy reference (and this is not it).
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Summary: Who taught these guys html?
Review: Based on the reviews I read of this book I expected more. Much of the html in this book is wrong! As I worked through the examples, I spent much of my time debugging mistakes in the authors' code. If you truly are a beginner to integrating asp pages with databases-prepare yourself. And make sure to get more than just this book.
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Summary: Code actually works...
Review: Unlike 99% of the books out there, the code in Beginning ASP Databases actually works! Such a breath of fresh air, eh? If you want to learn not only how things work, but why, then this book is for you. Finally a volume for programmers who are troubled by connecting to a db, by mixing html and a recordset to make a table, etc. Get it, read it, practice the stuff on your own computer.
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Summary: Excellent book on DB and ASP introduction.
Review: I used this book to finish a real life ASP project at work with little prior knowledge of how the interface between ASP and DB works.
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Summary: Must reading for database techies
Review: This book is not for dummies. John makes it clear that he is a programmer and is talking to programmers. You better be capable with an editor and understand the basics of HTML. With that out of the way, this is an excellent book. It opens up the world of database programming to web heads. I use it in my classes when I teach Crystal Reports.
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Summary: So far, THE best computers book I've bought
Review: Heil John. Rarely does one stumble accross such a clear, concise, 100% relevant, sometimes-funny, easy to read book. I've stumbled upon ASP and VB with no prior experience and after reading this book have started wizzing my way through database derived web applications. I recommend taking the time to download and explore all code presented in this book from the publisher's website (sell a CD with a book, when everythin is on-line !?!? what a lame idea ...). once agian, thank you John.
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Summary: The best ASP book
Review: You'll find exactly what you need...... Start using databases in your asp pages
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Summary: Bravo!
Review: Excellent book. Explain very difficult and complicated things in simple way, on plain English.Cover all what ASP developer(beginner) should know about databases,connections, ADO,SQL -in line statements and SQL query... Many examples with only few errors.More over I found that I can reuse many of this examples in my work(I work as Web Developer). Before this book I was have problems with SQL statements and Command object but this book cover much more.If you are beginner this book will bring you to intermediate level.
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