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Visual Basic Oracle 8 Programmer's Reference
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Author: Dov Trietsch, Mike Erickson, Reed Call
List Price: $29.99
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ISBN: B0000B0SZD
Publisher: Wrox Press Inc (November, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 1,334,489
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
just skimmed
I just skimmed this book at a book store. It did not impress me. With most of the VB programmers using ADO, the author could have devouted less pages to OO40 and concentrated on the nitty gritty of ADO and VB. If you can read MSDN and browse the NET, you don't need the book. Especially if you have even an average understanding of programming front ends and back ends.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Dont Waste Your Money on this Book
If your like me, the main reason I bought this book was to use ADO to retrieve Oracle data from within my VB application. I go to that section of the book (chapter 13)and instead of solutions I find all sorts of excuses why Orcale and VB dont work together!!! His excuses include "Oracle and ADO have not been the best of partners" and after showing a code example he states "remember, you'll have to wait for ADO 2.5 before you can run this". I bought the book to get a project done now, I dont need an author telling me that "here's how its done but its not going to work until a new version of the software is released!!!!"
Rating: 1 out of 5
Buy something else.
This is quite possibly the most poorly written book I've ever purchased. This guy writes at a third grade level....absolutely painful to read. I went through the first two chapters and simply couldn't take anymore. How any of the previous reviewers could have possibly rated this book at more than two starts is beyond me. I highly recommend going to a local bookstore before ordering this book from Amazon and actually skimming through parts of the book.
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