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Summary: Cuts through the alphabet soup
Review: It seems that our field is changing on an almost daily basis. Mr. Connell's book explains ADO, ASP, DLL, HTML, SQL, and more of these acroymns. Its funny, but I feel very confident about all of these terms that were once foreign. Mr. Connell has an exceptional way of explaining things so clearly and completely that even the complicated seems easy! This book was worhwhile... and I read some of the reviews and can see why over 100 people took the time to review this book. ITs wonderful.
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Summary: Neophite db programmer
Review: I have only been programming for 2 yrs now. I made a career change from accountant to programmer. Frankly, I struggle through book after book where the authror clearly knows his stuff but just can't communicate. I have found Mr. Connell's book to be the best I personally have ever read in terms of both programming and database techniques. Not only does he clearly discuss database technology, but as a bonus covers various computer science techniques I have not seen before in any book. In short, this book gave my much more than I bargained for.
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Summary: I use this in a college class
Review: No, not a college class that instantiates into a college object - but a real college classroom. My undergrad students find this book extremely readable and useful that we are going to use it for the third semester in a row. And when VB7 eventually hits the streets, we will get Mr Connells book for 7. But for now, I recommend this text if you want to walk away with some incredibly useful information - plus its enjoyable to read.
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Summary: Good "Getting Started" Type of Book
Review: This book is very well written, if a little dry at times. Step-by-step instructions for setting up SQL Server were very useful for a non-DBA like myself, and basic ADO coverage was included as well. If you're looking for in-depth, advanced knowledge, you might want to look elsewhere, but this book rocks for those of us wanting to be productive with the basic aspects of VB 6 data access utilizing ADO and SQL Sever. Coverage of stored procedures is basic--also look elsewhere if you want to gain advanced stored procedure skills. Overall, I'd recommend this book to all but seasoned VB/DB programming professionals.
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Summary: This is an amazing book, very clear and ingenious ideas...
Review: I had been learning VB6 database on my own for about a year when I picked up this book and started reading. I didn't think I was going to learn much from this book because it was a "beginning" book but, boy was I wrong. The explanation of DAO and ADO and the "state of the machine" and "bullet-proof" interface program he takes you through are incredible teachers. Connell really knows what he is talking about and is one of few people that can explain it for anyone to understand. You should probably have a little bit of knowledge of how VB works before reading this book but, overall this is an awesome book that can even double as your reference material. If you want a better understanding of VB6 database, read this book, you won't be dissapointed!
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Summary: Just what the Doctor ordered
Review: I was recently assigned a task to write a db app for our department using VB 6.0. There are quite a few book selections to choose from - and a lot of noise on the book shelves (real and virtual). After researching a few, I picked up Connell's book. Not only did it get me going - it provided me with ideas that I NEVER would have thought of. The state machine and bullet proof interface techniques are ingenious. With this single book, I am well on my way to having the high visibility project done ahead of schedule. Ive never done things like write to the editor, etc. But in this unique case felt I had to let everyone know what an exceptional book this is. Real world, excellent examples, and a display of knowledge that is obvious came from walking the technical walk
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Summary: Helpful but takes time to do all the coding
Review: I think it helped me to learn more about Class Modules. The example was interesting. But you just need a lot of time to type all the codes to learn. I wish there will be more pictures and less reading.
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Summary: When is the next book?
Review: I picked up Mr. Connell's book a few months ago and it has become my dog eared companion right next to my development computer. I have never found a technical author that is so readable as Mr. Connell. He anticipates the readers questions and provides examples that are right on!. I check Amazon at least once a week to see when Mr. Connell's next book will be out. I want to place an advance order.
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Summary: An excellent book - but . . . . . . . . . . .
Review: I found this an excellent text on how to create data base oriented VB6 applications. It contains meat and milk and can be effectively used by beginners and intermediate programmers as a reference.However, I must point out a gross mis-statement on page 85 and 86 concerning DDL's. Mr Connell starts explaining that in high level languages all calls to functions and subroutines are linked permaenently together in a type of linking called static linking. Then he goes on to say that Windows introduced the concept of dynamic linking. This is a grossly inaccurate statement. Dynamic linking has been the technique of choice in large 2d and 3d generation computer shops, using such languages as Cobol, Fortran, PL/1, C, and Pascal for decades. Very few shops use, or even permit static linking in the creation of computer executables. I know that this series of statements is not intended maliciously, but comes out a long disassociation with the mainframe computer environment. Mike Gates MikeGates@Freightliner.com
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Summary: very informatiove
Review: when is vb 7.0 going to be ou
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