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Roger Jennings' Database Developer's Guide With Visual Basic 6
by Roger Jennings, Matthew Harris
List Price: $59.99
Our Price: $41.99
ISBN: 0672310635
Publisher: SAMS (22 December, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 50,577
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 out of 5
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Rating: 4 out of 5
Great ideas for experienced VB Database programmers
This book is not for the beginning VB database programmer. It rushes into some advanced topics that a newbie could get lost in.It has some EXCELLENT presentations and ideas on Decisions Support Systems, and covers MTS very well for a book that does not specialize in it. I think that the most valuable portion of this book were the (brief) examples and ideas on using VB with OLAP and Data Warehousing. It is difficult to find useful information on these topics that you can apply in the real world with VB. I will be using this book as a reference in some of my future works.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent in-depth real-world exploration of VB6 DB Coding
This book is big and expensive, but well worth the cost and reading effort. It covers literally everything relating to VB6 database development and is well grounded in the traditions, methods and techniques of Visual Basic database development for business generally. ADO is effectively covered and the book demonstrates impressive Front-end design techniques for both "heads-down" data entry and decision-support, online-analytical-processing. Querie and client-server database design issues are explored with an in-depth nontrivial seriousness. MTS, multidimensional data analysis and much more is also well covered. I can't recommend this book highly enough. It is a difficult but immensely rewarding work. Thank-you Roger Jennings!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Everything just went over my head
I had high hopes for this book from its title. I thought, Whao! at last a book that will teach me about database programming like a developer. My joy evaporated faster than you can spell VB.The book reads like a discussion between the writers and his/her knowledgeable peers with no room for us wannabee developers. I have reasonable proramming background including VB, but this book was all greek to me. Scattered code snippets here and there with no "real" explanations, buzz words like MTS,CORBA, NED ED or whatever without their functions or scope in reference of this book are just tip of this iceberg of problems. I will keep this book. Someday when I learn to program serious vb database, I will come back to this book and check how many chapters I really understand. I am just sad that this book and my money did little to help me towards that goal.
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