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Summary: Startup reference for inexperienced programmers
Review: This book is a easy introduction to practically all basic concepts and technologies involved in Visual Basic programming for Oracle 8 back end. Among many other things it covers ADO, OO4O, PL/SQL. Contains many useful tables. It could be very useful as a startup manual for Visual Basic programmers who are new to the Oracle world. However, if you are experienced in Oracle, VB and PL/SQL, look elsewhere. Even for inexperienced programmers this book could become worthless after a week. For thorough Oracle presentation I would recommend the following books: ISBN: 007212606X ISBN: 1565923359
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Summary: A good start
Review: This book is an excellent starting point if you are new to Oracle, but you will need a better Oracle reference the further you go. It lays a good OO4O foundation, touches on Oracle functions, and shows some stored procs and ADO techniques. Most WROX books are well worth the money, and this is no exception. My only beef is that they call it a "programmer's reference", when in fact it is more like a beginner's tutorial. Still, it is a good, helpful book.
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Summary: Reader
Review: This book will sharpen your VB skill especially when it deals with OOP, but you really want to get it for the wealth of information about Oracle. We got a few copies of the book and distributed them among our programmers. Various members of the team had different skill that needed to be sharpened. Some needed a refresher course in SQL, others who came from legacy systems and learned only the basics of VB got a bit about OOP, all needed to learn about stored procedures and PL/SQL. This simple and short book gave us all of that and much more. We have opted to use ADO as our conduit to the database. The book gives us a complete reference to ADO and 3 chapters guided us in its use with Oracle. It starts with simple Recordsets and moves all the way to writing robust code using stored procedures and ADO. We've used the code in the book as a staring point to our project. If you have limited shelf space and need just one book, this is the book to have
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Summary: Buy something else.
Review: This is quite possibly the most poorly written book I've ever purchased. This guy writes at a third grade level....absolutely painful to read. I went through the first two chapters and simply couldn't take anymore. How any of the previous reviewers could have possibly rated this book at more than two starts is beyond me. I highly recommend going to a local bookstore before ordering this book from Amazon and actually skimming through parts of the book.
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Summary: Buy something else.
Review: This is quite possibly the most poorly written book I've ever purchased. This guy writes at a third grade level....absolutely painful to read. I went through the first two chapters and simply couldn't take anymore. How any of the previous reviewers could have possibly rated this book at more than two starts is beyond me. I highly recommend going to a local bookstore before ordering this book from Amazon and actually skimming through parts of the book.
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