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Beginning Visual Basic SQL Server 7.0
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Author: Thearon Willis
List Price: $39.99
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ISBN: B0000B0SZG
Publisher: Wrox Press Inc (January, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 2,754,225
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Very Very wordy - just to fill 860 pages - should be 250
I guess an 860 page book sells better than a 250 page book, that
would explain all needless pages in this book!This book repeats and repeats the same description of the code
over and over and over... Not to many authors are smart enought to realize when you
teach something keep it as simple as possible ( no charge for the tip to you authors out there.) For example don't include a column for address1 , address2
and address3 and then write code to test if address2 and address3
are NULL. The Address1 column is enough to get the point across. This kind of "filler" only distracts from the main point of learning ADO and SQL. And the Author over does normalization - you would be looked
at as a rank novice if you did this type of "over" normilization
in professional code. Book would get 4 stars if it was not filled with so much
fluff and filler and fluff and filler ....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming
I own 2 books written by Thearon Willis, this book and "Beginning SQL Server 2000 for Visual Basic Developers". Both books are excellent. Combining this book and Rob Vieira's "Professional SQL Server 7.0 Programming", I got a very knowledgeable skill set that combines Visual Basic 6.0/5.0, SQL Server 7.0 and RDO/DAO. If you have to maintain applications written in Visual Basic 6.0 and earlier or if the database is SQL Server 7.0, you will want to read this book. Please note: if you want to use latest ADO, you may have make some minor modifications to the examples in this books.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Author is a genius, when it comes to writing.
I've been a software engineer for just over 20 years now, and to this date, this author is by far, the most talented author, I've encountered. The book covers all that is required, for a Visual Basic developer, to learn the tasks associated with building applications for Visual Basic using SQL. With other books, it never failed that the author would leave something important out, when demonstrating a technique, but the author of this book, Thearon Willis, covers everything, down to the intimate detail. Thearon also has reminders through out the book, that remind the reader not to forget to do something, that may have already been covered. I believe the author has the ability to convey upon the reader, in an understandable manner, like no other author has.Many Thanks
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