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Summary: The perfect book when you are into serious DB Development
Review: This book is big and expensive, but well worth the cost and reading effort. It covers literally everything relating to VB6 database development and is well grounded in the traditions, methods and techniques of Visual Basic database development for business generally. ADO is effectively covered and the book demonstrates impressive Front-end design techniques for both "heads-down" data entry and decision-support, online-analytical-processing. Querie and client-server database design issues are explored with an in-depth nontrivial seriousness. MTS, multidimensional data analysis and much more is also well covered. I can't recommend this book highly enough. It is a difficult but immensely rewarding work. Thank-you Roger Jennings!
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Summary: Excellent in-depth real-world exploration of VB6 DB Coding
Review: This book is big and expensive, but well worth the cost and reading effort. It covers literally everything relating to VB6 database development and is well grounded in the traditions, methods and techniques of Visual Basic database development for business generally. ADO is effectively covered and the book demonstrates impressive Front-end design techniques for both "heads-down" data entry and decision-support, online-analytical-processing. Querie and client-server database design issues are explored with an in-depth nontrivial seriousness. MTS, multidimensional data analysis and much more is also well covered. I can't recommend this book highly enough. It is a difficult but immensely rewarding work. Thank-you Roger Jennings!
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Summary: Great ideas for experienced VB Database programmers
Review: This book is not for the beginning VB database programmer. It rushes into some advanced topics that a newbie could get lost in.It has some EXCELLENT presentations and ideas on Decisions Support Systems, and covers MTS very well for a book that does not specialize in it. I think that the most valuable portion of this book were the (brief) examples and ideas on using VB with OLAP and Data Warehousing. It is difficult to find useful information on these topics that you can apply in the real world with VB. I will be using this book as a reference in some of my future works.
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Summary: Great ideas for experienced VB Database programmers
Review: This book is not for the beginning VB database programmer. It rushes into some advanced topics that a newbie could get lost in. It has some EXCELLENT presentations and ideas on Decisions Support Systems, and covers MTS very well for a book that does not specialize in it. I think that the most valuable portion of this book were the (brief) examples and ideas on using VB with OLAP and Data Warehousing. It is difficult to find useful information on these topics that you can apply in the real world with VB. I will be using this book as a reference in some of my future works.
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Summary: Did an intern at SAMs write this?
Review: Too many typos and problems with sample code! I can't believe Roger Jennings wrote this. Simple SQL code is flawed ie: author's use of "=>" (p.256, 261) rather than ">="; references to the sample code on the CD are incorrect -EVERYTIME! - the installation puts them folders identified as \ch03, etc. but in the book (and sometimes hardcoded in the .frm files) the path is \Ddg_vb6\Chaptr##. All of the .mdb files that have linked tables must be opened and relinked! If you don't know to do this (that is, if you are a newbie which why you are reading this book) you get an error message that is cryptic at best. I haven't opened a project file and executed it without some problem. For $60 I expected more. SAMS publishing should take a lesson in customer service and visit WROX publishing. No errata is available for this book! Why? Anyone who has written a positive thing about this book must not have opened any of the sample apps on the CD. Too bad, RJ is an excellent author but his support staff needs to learn VB because most of the samples are flawed.
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Summary: Did an intern at SAMs write this?
Review: Too many typos and problems with sample code! I can't believe Roger Jennings wrote this. Simple SQL code is flawed ie: author's use of "=>" (p.256, 261) rather than ">="; references to the sample code on the CD are incorrect -EVERYTIME! - the installation puts them folders identified as \ch03, etc. but in the book (and sometimes hardcoded in the .frm files) the path is \Ddg_vb6\Chaptr##. All of the .mdb files that have linked tables must be opened and relinked! If you don't know to do this (that is, if you are a newbie which why you are reading this book) you get an error message that is cryptic at best. I haven't opened a project file and executed it without some problem. For $60 I expected more. SAMS publishing should take a lesson in customer service and visit WROX publishing. No errata is available for this book! Why? Anyone who has written a positive thing about this book must not have opened any of the sample apps on the CD. Too bad, RJ is an excellent author but his support staff needs to learn VB because most of the samples are flawed.
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Summary: The most "easy to read db book" ever
Review: Ver nice to "always find waht you lookin for" when using this book. The text is "floating" straight in to my hard learned 640k brain.
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Summary: Needs another round of editing before publishing
Review: Why don't authors test their code before they print it? All throughout the book author does this. For example, client side cursors can only be static type and in chap 3 the author codes .CusorLocation=adUseClient, .CusorType=adOpenKeyset (p.143). Geez. Other samples have adOpenDynamic. You can set the cursor type property to these enums but if you check the property via debug.print or in the locals window you will see the property = static. Something that simple makes me a bit unsure what is wrong with the more complex material in the latter part of the book. Other things that bothered me were the code on CD needed to be hacked to run. They should run right out of the box. Too much emphasis on the data controls. And what was all that about VCR drivers and video picons? what a waste of time and space. If I was married to this book I'd get a divorce!
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