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Summary: Not a tutorial - CD problems
Review: I am still trying to work my way through this book, but may return it. In case it makes a difference to you, this book isn't as much a tutorial as it is "this is how this works". In other words, there aren't any "now try this" examples. The coverage seems to be good, but I'm a bit disappointed with how it's presented. A step-by-step approach is easier to understand and follow, in my opinion.Another thing to beware of: the CD leaves some room for improvement, at least as far as the databases go. There's scripts for SQL Server and Oracle to create tables, etc. but not a script to import the data. The data files are in CSV format, and to import them into the database takes a bit of work. If you don't know what you're doing, it's definitely a struggle, with no documentation on how to do it... Overall, this book may cover lots of great areas, but who can tell when it takes so much effort to get through it? Again, it looks like the coverage and topics are well covered, but the format makes it somewhat difficult reading. I'm hoping it'll pay off for me and anyone else who buys it.
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Summary: Not a tutorial - CD problems
Review: I am still trying to work my way through this book, but may return it. In case it makes a difference to you, this book isn't as much a tutorial as it is "this is how this works". In other words, there aren't any "now try this" examples. The coverage seems to be good, but I'm a bit disappointed with how it's presented. A step-by-step approach is easier to understand and follow, in my opinion. Another thing to beware of: the CD leaves some room for improvement, at least as far as the databases go. There's scripts for SQL Server and Oracle to create tables, etc. but not a script to import the data. The data files are in CSV format, and to import them into the database takes a bit of work. If you don't know what you're doing, it's definitely a struggle, with no documentation on how to do it... Overall, this book may cover lots of great areas, but who can tell when it takes so much effort to get through it? Again, it looks like the coverage and topics are well covered, but the format makes it somewhat difficult reading. I'm hoping it'll pay off for me and anyone else who buys it.
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Summary: A good VB/db book
Review: If you are new to databases and know you are going to use VB, Access, Active X, and ADO, then this is a good book for you. Otherwise beware. This book sets you up for learning the how to use the Microsoft endorsed tools for db programming. For that purpose this is a good book. Where this book falls apart is trying to teach you Oracle stored procedures and programming. You are better off getting a book specific to Oracle 8i. The SQL also is not Oracle friendly. If you want a good understanding of SQL, there are a number of books I would recommend over this one. By no means is this a bad book, it is just tailored more towards the Microsoft way of life than the Amazon review would lead you to believe. It is definately worth the expense to any VB scribe.
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Summary: A good VB/db book
Review: If you are new to databases and know you are going to use VB, Access, Active X, and ADO, then this is a good book for you. Otherwise beware. This book sets you up for learning the how to use the Microsoft endorsed tools for db programming. For that purpose this is a good book. Where this book falls apart is trying to teach you Oracle stored procedures and programming. You are better off getting a book specific to Oracle 8i. The SQL also is not Oracle friendly. If you want a good understanding of SQL, there are a number of books I would recommend over this one. By no means is this a bad book, it is just tailored more towards the Microsoft way of life than the Amazon review would lead you to believe. It is definately worth the expense to any VB scribe.
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