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Beginning VB 2005 Databases: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional)

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This really is an outstanding book. My background? Years of C and VB development, but no .NET; then tons of SQL Server 2000/2005 work (am MCITP, MCT in SQL Server).

I specifically wanted a jump-start on accessing SQL 2005 databases from VB.NET, and this book does it. The same method is used throughout the book: (1) briefly explain a topic; (2) write some code to illustrate its usage; (3) explain salient points in the code. The examples are extremely short & simple. Each stands alone and illustrates a specific point about .NET or SQL 2005. The authors do not, as some do, create huge coding projects in which learning points are too easily lost. And, not a trivial point, each example works!

If you are a SQL Server professional, you can skip or quickly flip thru some sections that focus on T-SQL, but if you are already a .NET developer you probably won't want to skip anything, because virtually every code sample deals with database access.

Excellent, excellent book.

It's the Best for Beginners and intermediate in VB.net05 Databases,I have read several Books previously and I Couldn't Understand well ,From Beginning to The end This Book explain step By Step all you Need For starting Programming in Databases using VB.Net 2005 and gives you a guide of Books to continue the next grade.

I'm trying to pick up a lot of different technologies right now and have been really happy with the 4 chapters I've read so far in VB 2005 Databases. I've read most of chapters 5 and all of 7-9 and they've really filled in some details I wasn't getting from other sources. While a lot of the examples deal with console applications, it was the improved understanding of datasources and datatables that helped me diagnose and fix the problems in my windows forms application. I expect I will read this one cover to cover.

I purchased this book from Amazon to help with the transition from VB 6 to VB 2005.
It's an OK book but all the code examples are written for the console, I.E. Command line.
I was looking for examples using Visual compaonets tied to data fields.

I guess some may get more out of it espcially if your needing to run database commands
in the background via the console device out of sight of the user.