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Summary: An Excellent Book Which Delivers What Its Title Promises
Review: An excellent book to learn C++ database programming using MFC and ATL. The examples are clear and the code compiles and works! I am a professional Visual Basic programmer who uses ADO in building Visual Basic interfaces to Access, Oracle and SQL Server databases. I have C++ experience, but little C++ Windows programming experience. I highly recommend this book if you want to learn C++ database programming.
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Summary: An Excellent Book Which Delivers What Its Title Promises
Review: An excellent book to learn C++ database programming using MFC and ATL. The examples are clear and the code compiles and works! I am a professional Visual Basic programmer who uses ADO in building Visual Basic interfaces to Access, Oracle and SQL Server databases. I have C++ experience, but little C++ Windows programming experience. I highly recommend this book if you want to learn C++ database programming.
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Summary: Not bad, but it could be better
Review: As someone who has basic skills in Visual C++ and a little better knowledge of databases and using Access, I found this book to be more of a help than a hinderance. I learned a few extra things that were of relevance to me. I found its explanation of MFC to be helpful, while the first 2 chapters were review of old info for me.Before buying it, however, I'd try to find it at a university library or get it though interlibrary loan. "An introductory book that attempts to cover the main data access technologies currently in use, including ODBC, DAO, OLE DB, ADO AND RDS." Keeping that in mind, the author accomplished that task.
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Summary: Not bad, but it could be better
Review: As someone who has basic skills in Visual C++ and a little better knowledge of databases and using Access, I found this book to be more of a help than a hinderance. I learned a few extra things that were of relevance to me. I found its explanation of MFC to be helpful, while the first 2 chapters were review of old info for me. Before buying it, however, I'd try to find it at a university library or get it though interlibrary loan. "An introductory book that attempts to cover the main data access technologies currently in use, including ODBC, DAO, OLE DB, ADO AND RDS." Keeping that in mind, the author accomplished that task.
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Summary: Very Basic Introduction
Review: I am a novice programmer, so, if I feel it is an elementary treatment of the subject matter, you should believe me. Over the past 6 months, I have read 10 books on programming with Visual C++ (including MFC, ATL, COM, database). This book would have been more useful if the author had concentrated simply on OLEDB programming for Visual C++. The intro material on database basics is insufficient to help the absolute beginner, but is too elementary for the majority of people who have an interest in database development. The same statement can be made about the author's discussion of COM. However, the most disconcerting fact is that the cornerstone chapter (Chap. 6, "An OLE DB Consumer Example") is based on a SQL Server database. If this book is geared towards the mass market of beginning database programmers, why wouldn't the author use a mass market database as was used in the other chapters(Microsoft Access)? What novice database programmer is going to have free access to SQL Server? Wrox Press editors should have realized this and at least provided the sample database in this chapter in both SQL Server format and Access format. Other than these comments, it is a useful book for the absolute beginner if you are willing to transpose SQL Server data into Access.
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Summary: I agree, this deserves 0 stars
Review: I have to agree with the folks that panned this book. I don't know what the reviewers who applauded it were looking at.
Sadly this is another example of what we see too much from Wrox, a hastily written, superficial, badly edited ( I would say not edited at all. I can't believe the number of typos and grammatical errors. ) book rushed into print to try and cash in.
For shame, Wrox.
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Summary: Please send me your book
Review: I'm very interesting your book, but I have no mony so I wonder if you could give me your bok free
Thank you!
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Summary: Save Your Money
Review: This book is awful! The books loses focus and forgets who its audience is over and over. There are discussions about the mandatory features that need to be implemented when writing a database driver, Visual Source Safe, and many other topics that don't have any thing to with writing a C++ database application. To make matter worse the book is also riddled with typos - both grammar and code. The book spends more time discussing MFC than it does implementing the database code. The coding style displayed in this book is that of a beginner. If you are an beginner programmer this is an example of how NOT to program. The code is very inconsistent and poorly laid out. Functions for common pieces of code are never created and instead copied each time that it is needed - sometimes 3 or 4 times in one tiny example application). This isn't the typical book that you would expect from Wrox. Their books are normally solid, but this one really misses the mark. Save your money.
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Summary: Bill from Illinois
Review: This book is so full of grammatical and typographical errors, it is virtually unreadable. I read through about half the book and gave up. There are an average of 5 errors per page - that's over 1000 errors in a 200 page book! I want my money back. The author and publisher should be ashamed to have offered this book to the public.
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