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Java Database Programming
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Author: Brian Jepson
List Price: $29.95
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ISBN: 0471165182
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (November, 1996)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 162,027
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Can be interesting, but don't believe the title
This book is subtitled "Master Next Generation Web Database Techniques", so you might be forgiven for thinking that it has something to do with the web, or HTML, or distributed computing. No such luck. What you really get is mostly a collection of annotated source code listings for a simple SQL interpreter and database using plain text files, padded out with one or two chapters of introduction to SQL and JDBC. If you are interested in how an SQL database might be written, or you want to provide an SQL/JDBC interface to some plain text files then it could still be a ueful book, but I can't give a good review to any book which so wildly misrepresents itself.
Rating: 4 out of 5
good book for learning how to write a db or driver
First of all, I was not troubled by the writing style or any of the other things some of the previous reviews mentioned. For those of you who complained about the amount of source code in the book, I would just say that while the book is largely source, it is there for a reason. It would be really hard to explain the book if the code were not there. I suppose he could have asked us all to download the code, but I would have been *less* likely to buy the book if I knew I had to print everything out myself. (And yes, when I am learning, I like to see the code written out on paper - I don't like taking my laptop in the car to read, but I do enjoy the portability of a book. But I suppose that's a whole other debate.)Anyway.... this is a great book for learning how to write your own DB. I have been meaning to write this review for a long time. I have checked this book out of my local university library at least 3 times, and I finally am going to bite the bullet and just buy the thing! No more worries if it will be stolen or "lost" by another student. There are a lot of books out there that will show you how to code SQL and how to work with drivers. This is one of the few books that shows you how to make your own database and how to make your own drivers. This knowledge is indispensible to people who think they know everything about databases already. One of my biggest accomplishments in my master's program was being able to say that I wrote my own database. This book helped!! Now that I am a PhD candidate, I plan to use this book whenever I have to teach a database class in the future. I agree with the previous reviewers who said to put out a new edition though! This is the only reason I did not give this book 5 stars. A lot has changed in Java over 4 or 5 years since the first edition came out. I would like to see some newer Java features integrated into the product, and especially see those explained in the book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Best Java Database book out there.
Greetings. I first read this book in 1997. I read several books on the market back then, but this was the best. It saved my a**. I had a little trouble, email Brian Jepson, and got an answer. Since then I have emailed other authors for quick questions and have not gotten a response. I just looked up this book on amazon to see if there was a new edition so I could update my bookshelf, unfortunately Brian has not updated this book. Brian, if you are listening, DO IT AGAIN!! I have read many many books over the last 5 years -- this is still the best java db book out there, period.
Sean
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