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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: Buy it, this book contains many recommendations how to write programs using ODBC. Great book even for an experienced professional.
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Summary: About the best you can do outside of the classroom
Review: I had a situation come up where I needed to access an Oracle 7 stored procedure that returned output parameters and no results set. The Microsoft Visual C++ CRecordset classes don't handle that situation very well. The only solution was to drop down into ODBC API calls. I struggled until I found this book. It takes a lot of the mystery out of an extremely complex API. It pretty much rides around in my backpack everywhere I go now!
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Summary: About the best you can do outside of the classroom
Review: I have read this book and am using it as a source while writing a C++ program (console) which utilizes ODBC calls. Though the book is quite helpful, I am now here at Amazon looking for a book with more specifics!!! The examples do work, but are often so simple that when you get to a 'real world' complex query, they are of little assistance. Definitely will NOT be the only resource you'll need to develop a complete application using ODBC.
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Summary: Its a helpful book......but
Review: I have read this book and am using it as a source while writing a C++ program (console) which utilizes ODBC calls. Though the book is quite helpful, I am now here at Amazon looking for a book with more specifics!!! The examples do work, but are often so simple that when you get to a 'real world' complex query, they are of little assistance. Definitely will NOT be the only resource you'll need to develop a complete application using ODBC.
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Summary: Everything you need, in one handy package
Review: This hardback text is one of the best database API books that I have in my collection. It is well laid-out and it has examples.This book is laid out in the order statements are used, with the necessary create and destroy statements together. It starts with connecting to the database, moves to statement execution, and rounds out with retrieving your results. There are of course necessary chapters on creating tables and dealing with transactions. Each ODBC API call is accompanied with a list of appropriate parameters, return values, and errors. ODBC Database API's are used in layers: To Setup: Allocate Environment, Allocate Connection, Connect, ... To Shutdown, reverse everything: ... Disconnect, Deallocate Connection, Deallocate Environment.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This is inarguably the best book on straight ODBC API. Very lucid in its presentation and full of practical examples, every page is packed with all the essential information. This is really a serious book for the serious ODBC programmers and every tool and technique to get the job done can be found in this book. My only wish is that the authors would update this book from ODBC v2.0 to v3.0, perhaps also include a few chapters on OLEDB.
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Summary: The best book on writing ODBC applications
Review: With the ODBC API you are given a whole lot of notes? But how do you combine those notes to write a symphony? This is the only book on the market which really shows you how. It consists of a detailed ODBC reference and highly useful sample code that shows how to take the API calls and make an application out of them. The calls are grouped in logical sequences, each call is thoroughly described, and then an example of a program that uses that call (and other calls) is given. The writing is extremely clear. The presentation is excellent. The book is extremely well organized. It does not assume any prior knowledge of ODBC though it assumes you know how to program C. C is the only language used in the book. The use of ODBC in other languages such as Visual Basic is not discussed. Though this book is old; I cannot recommend it too highly. I've used it before and I'll use it again.
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Summary: The best book on writing ODBC applications
Review: With the ODBC API you are given a whole lot of notes? But how do you combine those notes to write a symphony? This is the only book on the market which really shows you how. It consists of a detailed ODBC reference and highly useful sample code that shows how to take the API calls and make an application out of them. The calls are grouped in logical sequences, each call is thoroughly described, and then an example of a program that uses that call (and other calls) is given. The writing is extremely clear. The presentation is excellent. The book is extremely well organized. It does not assume any prior knowledge of ODBC though it assumes you know how to program C. C is the only language used in the book. The use of ODBC in other languages such as Visual Basic is not discussed. Though this book is old; I cannot recommend it too highly. I've used it before and I'll use it again.
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