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Summary: humor me!
Review: This book is targetted towards intermediate and advanced users. Hence save your humor about your daughters in some other books. His previous book on VB 5: Hitchhiker's guide to VB was excellent. This one is written for clowns.
What I mean is: when I buy this kind of book which is targetted towards advanced users, I just need the technics so I can implement them quickly. So save the jokes for some other books. My suggestion is to buy Serious ADO: Universal Data Access with Visual Basic by MacDonald. If you only have a couple of weeks to implement some app using VB and ADO, this book will deliver.
I got my app running with solid foundations in no time.
When reading books for ADO, you need to understand connection objects, disconnected recordset, parameter objects etc. Serious ADO illustrates them rigorously - minus the jokes.
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Summary: This IS the ADO book to buy...
Review: This book is the best ADO how-to book on the market. Mr Vaughn tells all! He shows what pitfalls to avoid and the efficient ways to get things done using ADO. EXCELLENT!
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Summary: Filled with technical mistakes
Review: This book was clearly rushed out the door early to make someone some extra money - many factual errors littered in the sample code and analysis
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Summary: Not for Beginners
Review: This is a good book for advanced users of ADO, however if you just started using ADO and want a good background and solid knowledge base of the subject this is not the book to get. The book has most of its examples in VB. I was looking for some ASP examples and it definetly lacks good ASP support. I would suggest getting WROX's ADO 2.5 book if you're starting out using ADO.
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Summary: Beuatifully Written
Review: This the best book I've found on ADO. It is well written and beatifully organised. The key chapters for me were 4. Getting Connected 5. ADO Command Strategies 6. Recordset Strategies 7. Manipulating Your Recordset. There is also a great chapter on ASP as well as a chapter on moving data efficiently between tiers which are not my main focus. I didn't give it 5 stars because already it's a little dated. Nothing really on ADO 2.6 or SQL Server 2000. But it sholdn't be a handicap.Also not much on esoteric command strategies such as creating Stored procedures on the fly where your parameter is in the Select or From clause.
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Summary: Great tool for advanced ADO
Review: When my development team went whole-heartedly into ADO in a middle tier, we did so, at first, without the help of this book. As you know if you've looked around, there's not much out there. We survived. Then we found this book. So good every member of the team got a copy. This is a must read for anyone doing heavy ADO coding. It talks about _how_ ado works... so you can understand the ramifications of design decisions and work to design software that performs with ADO and utilizes its features to the fullest. If you can only have one ADO book (in addition to the help files), this is the book. If you're looking for an ADO tutorial, this really isn't it. If you're doing it and need advice and want to do it better, this IS it. Yours, -jbn
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Summary: Great tool for advanced ADO
Review: When my development team went whole-heartedly into ADO in a middle tier, we did so, at first, without the help of this book. As you know if you've looked around, there's not much out there. We survived. Then we found this book. So good every member of the team got a copy. This is a must read for anyone doing heavy ADO coding. It talks about _how_ ado works... so you can understand the ramifications of design decisions and work to design software that performs with ADO and utilizes its features to the fullest. If you can only have one ADO book (in addition to the help files), this is the book. If you're looking for an ADO tutorial, this really isn't it. If you're doing it and need advice and want to do it better, this IS it. Yours, -jbn
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