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Summary: Very helpful book that gets right to the point.
Review: This book has helped me tremendously in learning how to access databases. Though it takes some searching to find the exact combination of code to use - it's all there. I am a beginner in VB database coding and this book got me started in the right direction. It only took me a few minutes to set up an ADO connection to a database and start coding away.
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Summary: Another Excellent Book
Review: It's obvious John Connell is a professional educator. A perfectly illustrated introductory guide to programming with ADO and DAO. If you're just starting out read this one from the beginning, but if you're familiar with VB and ready for a concise and practical immersion go to Chapter 8. The best explanations of basic SQL I've seen. This is the second Wrox book I've picked up. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Great Book! I purchased three for friends already!
Review: This book is excellent. A very thorough, yet amazingly concise and simple, discussion of the topic. I HIGHLY recommend this for folks new to VB and / or databases. I recall two negative reviews. One said the code didn't work. "Leave the database alone and restructure the user" comes to mind. The code works fine - but you can't make mistakes (typos, etc.). Programming is unforgiving in this respect. Another wanted more ADO, as though DAO had a fork stuck in it. This book is not for based solely on internet databases. It would be irresponsible to not address DAO. Good luck in your search for knowledge. Databases are POWERFUL. This book is a GREAT first step as a foundation to build upon.
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Summary: See the rest - draw your own conclusions
Review: Funny, but I usually never get caught up in reviews. I guess Amazon makes it so easy that I can't resist. I read the reviews of other database books, and this one is the hands down winner. I ordrerd two others, as well as Mr. Connells. I can see why this one is far and away the most popular. And yesterday I found out that a large University is using Mr. Connell's book as the basis for an undergraduate class. I guess that speaks for itself. But being in the Christmas spirit, I just wanted to pass along my thoughts. I hope they might help someone - there is just way too much VB noise out there on the book shelves. When I find something that is excellent such as Connell's book - its very rare. I hope this will help others eliminate long and expensive searches.
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Summary: The Best VBDB Book
Review: I did a search for VB Database books on the web, and ordered three of them. I also read all three. Mr. Connell's is the very best by far - Im sorry I wasted my money on the others. He covers all the right steps, in the right order, while anticipating my every question. It was uncanny how just when I would think of a question - Mr. Connell answered it in the next paragraph. I found the book to be the best, most well thought out technical book I have ever read. And I guess that when I read all of the other reviewers glowing reports - it should have not been suprising. I completely enjoyed reading this book - and that's alot to say for a technical read.
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Summary: It is a good start, but it falls too short
Review: At first, the book looks great with a lot of examples, but the tecniques the author uses are not for visual basic 6.0 , but for 5.0, (DAO instead of ADO) he never touches the data enviriomet wizard and you still have a lot of questions after you read it, I guess that is why it is only for beginners, Right.
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Summary: Finally - The Book for VBDB
Review: I have found several books that cover dabases, but only on the surface. They also make large assumptions about the user knowledge level - and usually they are wrong. They assume I know what I dont, and go over in detail what I do. Mr. Connell's book has such a good balance. He anticipates my questions and leads the reader through DAO, ADO, DLLS, ASP, object models, and much more. This book is a rare find. I dont know if anyone will heed my words, but this is one satisfied reader / professional programmer.
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Summary: Only for Real Beginners
Review: This book was a waste of my money, but mostly time. I can hardly believe the Author is such a VB Pro, since there is hardly any TRUE OOP Techniques, the code is hardly an art , most of the book is devoted to an outdated and unscalable Data Control. May be good for real beginners. A lot of errors in code, Author speaks a lot of "eliminating the dots" , but doesn't stick to that principle in his programs.
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Summary: Absolute Must for VB6 Database Programmers
Review: I would like to congratulate you for producing Beginning VB6 Database Programming by John Connell. The book is well structured, the chapters can be studied independently. The explanations are very thorough, and clear, the style gave me complete confidence in the author and the feeling that no stones were left unturned. This opinion is evidenced by the Bullet Proof User Interface which is built, incrementally over chapters 4 -7, leading to an excellent Data Control Class Module and Form Templates which have been designed for code reusability. Chapter 10 provides an excellent Address book application using many features of VB for the design and implementation of the foundations of a professional contact management system. The background and history of ADO is clearly and thoroughly documented to provide a solid understanding of the many technologies involved in Database access and how ADO simplifies data access using Universal Data Access for both relational and non relational data sources. Chapter 12 provides an excellent ADO Data Bound ActiveX Control which enables code re-use in a multitude of applications. Chapter 13 is an excellent introduction to Acitve Server Pages and ADO with a really useful Cookie application which incorporates many of the features of using Active Server Pages, using HTML, Server Side Scripting using Visual Basic, ADO for database connectivity and an Active X Dynamic Link Library to exploit the power of VB6 and keeping the Data Centric code close to the database, separate from the User Interface, and again, designed for re-usability in other applications. Chapter 14, Advanced ADO Programming - Data Mining. This is a suberp application which has huge potential in many organisations with corporate data. The data mining technique is employed in a professional front end, user interface, which can easily be tailored to many business specific scenarios which require Business Intelligence uncovering hidden trends in their corporate databases. Finally, Chapter 15, really tops it off, with the capability to provide data exporting features for all database applications. The ability to export data from a database in a variety of formats, including Excel, HTML and CSV is invaluable to every application developer. The ability to disconnect a Recordset and make it persistent has huge potential in Internet applications. The book has, throughout, many useful coding tips to improve the speed of display of Forms, using Events, and writing fast code using the With Statement and storing of static values as variables for fast code execution. Very Professional. I started the book in the Cookie Chapter 13, then 14 then 15. I then worked my way back to Chapter 8. Then I worked forward, to finish with Chapter 7. Thank you, I've learned heaps from the book. Big respect to John Connell, he is the man.
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Summary: Can't be 5 out of 5 - it IS!
Review: When I first read these reviews about 6 weeks ago this book has about 70 reviewers and the AVERAGE score was 5! (now its 4.5) I thought that no book in could have such high score after so many people had reviewed it - so I hit 'refresh' just to be sure the right graphic had been loaded. Now I've bought and read the book I have to agree. I'm a VC++ person learing VB because I want an easier way to use databases. Excellent! (by the way the 'Beginning VB6 Objects' by Peter Wright is also a good book - almost easy if you know VC++).
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