Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Databases (Programmer to Programmer)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 768 pages
• Published by: Wrox November 21, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 076458894X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764588945
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Weighs: 2.6 pounds

Reader Reviews
Most manuals on Visual Basic (VB) contain at least a little bit of information about how to connect to a database to store and find the data you need. In the Wrox 'Professional VB 2005,' for instance, there's one chapter of about forty pages on using ADO.NET to connect from your program to a database. Perhaps that's enough for some people, but I needed more information as the applications I was working on grew more complex. This book has almost 800 pages on basically just using databases from VB. It gives in depth instruction on using Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases from VB. In most of the applications it uses Access as the standard database and then describes how to change the programming to fit the other databases. The SQL statements used in the book are quite simple. The concern of this book is getting the SQL statement back and forth from your program to the database to manipulate the data. Unless he added another several hundred pages Mr. Willis couldn't get into all that SQL can do. Your next manual needs to be a SQL manual, and one specifically for your particular database as they aren't the same. SQL is a full scale programming language of its own that is run in the database itself. You'll write better code if you can take advantage of everything the database itself can do. Comment | | (Report this)