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Summary: false advertising
Review: I can't add much to the other reviews they are pretty accurate. I do want to point out that the online portion of this book no longer exists and that the publisher nor Amazon points this out when they sell you the book. Instead you are directed to the SAMS online learning site which of course does not include material ffor this book. I would not purchase it on principle because I felt that I was decieved as to what I was purchasing.
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Summary: Well written book on some strange technology
Review: In general, the authors did a great job of covering win-cgi, DAO, Visual Basic, Access and Website web server. I was able to set up all the examples and make them work and got a good dose of building and querying Access db. The organization and presentation of material is in the top 5% of development books that I have read.My take-away from this book is that VB/win-cgi is not the most elegant way to webify a database. The win-cgi/CGI32.BAS framework is a real strange kluge. I found myself constructing a flow diagram to put it all into perspective so I could follow the process from start to finish. This would have been nice to have in the book. I have worked with ASP/ADO at the low end and Sapphire Web at the hi end, and from a cost/benefit point of view, believe there are better ways to go for NT web development. I make this assumption on the sheer complexity of the win-cgi/CGI32.BAS framework and question its performance, scaleability and extensibility. For a low volume, non-mission critical application, its probably okay. That said, you may want to consider investing your time looking at M/S Interdev, VB6.0, Java tools, ColdFusion or some of the other web/db technologies on the market. Proprietary issues asside, I think that ADO is an elegant solution for the money. It comes down to how much you can afford to buy vs how much time you are willing to invest in development and maintenance.
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Summary: A Great College Textbook
Review: It has 13 chapters with approximately 6 Lessons in each chapter. The first 7 chapters deal with properly designing a database (and some server stuff). There is much more to it than you think, and believe me, everyone needs to learn how, it's much more than just creating a table and some querys. The last 6 chapters deal with Publishing your database on the web using Visual Basic 5.0. In addition, each lesson has a quiz at the end of it (and the answers in the back) to help you grasp the concept of each lesson. Also, at the end of each lesson there are excersises to complete that will help you apply the information from the lesson. All in all, it's about how you learn. I think his book does a good job of walking you through each lesson and showing you how to develop a web database. I think this book would make a very good College textbook.
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Summary: A Great College Textbook
Review: It has 13 chapters with approximately 6 Lessons in each chapter. The first 7 chapters deal with properly designing a database (and some server stuff). There is much more to it than you think, and believe me, everyone needs to learn how, it's much more than just creating a table and some querys. The last 6 chapters deal with Publishing your database on the web using Visual Basic 5.0. In addition, each lesson has a quiz at the end of it (and the answers in the back) to help you grasp the concept of each lesson. Also, at the end of each lesson there are excersises to complete that will help you apply the information from the lesson. All in all, it's about how you learn. I think his book does a good job of walking you through each lesson and showing you how to develop a web database. I think this book would make a very good College textbook.
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Summary: Superb Job!
Review: Khurana & Gadhok's work is truly comprehensive and thoroughly designed. If you are interested in grasping the central concepts of online database creation and maintenance, you really don't want to pass this opportunity up.
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