Client/Server Developer's Guide with Delphi 3 with CDROM (Sams Developer's Guides) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Ken Henderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1997 | Series: Sams Developer's Guides

Showing Delphi developers how to implement client/server solutions with Borland's programming language, this book includes detailed discussion of using efficient database design to optimize applications for the area. It covers Delphi's advances features, such as multi-threading and cached updates.

Product Details

• Paperback: 967 pages
• Publisher: Sams (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672310244
• ISBN-13: 978-0672310249
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,993,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #77 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools > Borland Delphi

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yikes!, July 27, 2000

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Isaac Rabinovitch (Portland, Or) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Client/Server Developer's Guide with Delphi 3 with CDROM (Sams Developer's Guides) (Paperback)

This is good. This is better than good. I consider myself a pretty good technical writer, but I've never been able to pull off this combination of nitpickingly complete technical detail, utterly clear tutorials, and friendly, readable prose.

If you're new to Delphi, you need to read this book. It covers important functional details that are not clearly described anywhere else.

If you're an experienced Delphi programmer, you need to read this book. It covers all the practical details you thought you already knew.

If you're a novice database programmer, you need to read this book. You can use it with the evaluation version of Delphi (download for free) to learn how client-server applications are supposed to work.

If you're an experienced database programmer, you need to read this book. It will show you what you're missing in your current development environment.

Never mind the "Delphi 3" in the title. There are details that are inconsistent with Delphi 5, but these problems are simply overwhelmed by the extreme clarity of the text.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Client-Server Developers need this book, June 11, 1998

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Mitch Tracy (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Client/Server Developer's Guide with Delphi 3 with CDROM (Sams Developer's Guides) (Paperback)

I've read about 30 Delphi books over the past 3 years. Most of them move down my bookshelf to the floor, but this one has real staying power. It's the only one that has *specific* help for connecting to and using SQL databases, and has very good information on Borland's Database Explorer. Additional information on using a Data Dictionary, Data Modules, SQL, and an excellent overview of building a project using the repository and inheritance make this book a great tutorial on Delphi, even if you're not doing Client Server development right now.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well-done, Mr. Henderson, very well-done, August 8, 2000

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Debbie Fairchild (Redmond, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Client/Server Developer's Guide with Delphi 3 with CDROM (Sams Developer's Guides) (Paperback)

When this book arrived on my desk, I didn't know what to think. Would it be another 1000 page paperweight or something I could actually use? Fortunately, it was the latter. I can't say enough good things about this book. It's the best Delphi book I've ever come across, and I have most of them. There is an obsession with detail in this book that is refreshing in these days of 10-pound books that say little and inform even less. I can only imagine the amount of work that went into getting the tutorial right. A tutorial that spans several chapters? You don't see those anymore -- not in these days of books written before products are even released and then rushed to print. I especially liked the *specific* coverage of connecting to and working with the various DBMS back-ends -- good stuff and quite useful. The Internet chapter is a real gem, too. There is no glossing over details in this book. The author obviously worked his behind off to cram as much helpful text as he could into this book. And I really like his writing style. I agree that formal, stiff writing has no place in technical how-to books. It's refreshing to find a book where the author focuses his attention on helping the reader understand his message rather than on stroking his own ego. Highly recommended. (Ignore the D3 on the cover -- this book applies just fine to D5).