Customer Reviews

Creating Cool Web Databases

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I don't know who the authors or publishers thought this book would appeal to, possibly some Dilbert-world middle-manager who'd like to fling buzzwords around, but certainly not anyone trying to do real work. The table of contents is very impressive, too bad there isn't any content to back it up.

I learned a few nice buzzwords, and found out what all the other things are I'll need to learn to build web databases, but this book starts out by telling you "we've left out the programming...that's for experts". That was my first clue that I wasn't going to learn many new things in this one. A beginner won't get many of the good basics here, and programmers won't learn anything new. The topics are all over the place. There doesn't appear to be a clear target audience for this book!

This book will teach you everything you need to know about putting a database on the web except how to put a database on the web. It describes how to make a basic database and how to make a basic web page, but whenever the subject of actually connecting the two comes up, the author says the scripting is too hard and you should hire a consultant.

This book is a complete waste of money.

This book despite all the bad reviews comes thru perfectly for those only wishing to get a website up and running. While a brief overview of databases is required, for the vast majority not wishing to have a complete history and esoteric description of obscure programming calls will find this a good start. Programmers frankly are not the only ones in need of a good overview of how to make a database work on the Web. The mystique of ORACLE also falls apart when the reader finally realizes that ACCESS and Cold Fusion are perfect for small business applications. A carpenter doesn't build kitchen cabinets with a sledge hammer neither is ORACLE the only tool useable for a web database. For all the ORACLE propeller heads out there definitely go out and pay $95.00 and be confused for 6 months trying to impress yourself and your friends that you paid $95 and still don't know how to put a web database online! After reading this book you will be one of the few who can actually put a website and database together.This books deserves 6 bottles of beer and five stars if for no other reason you can put it on the coffee table and not be identified with the dummies/idiot group of computer users.

This book was amazingly poor. The majority of the book is just the authors describing all of the different tools that are available. In order to actually DO anything, you need to run the shareware programs on the CD. This book might as well have been 100 pages long and called "Cold Fusion and Access for people with too much money in their pockets".

I don't know what this guy was smoking when he wrote it, or what the publisher was snorting when he signed this guy, but for christ's sake let's sterilize both of them to prevent this type of [garbage] from clogging our inputs.

I don't understand why those people gave this book a 5 starrating. This book contains NOTHING but old/small-scale solutions forcreating a web database. It talks about Oracle 7 still, when 8 is the current popular version. And i don't understand why people still want to buy this old thing!!!! Don't waste your money, get something better!

This is a book that will give you a very basic introduction to small scale database driven websites. Came with a time limited version of personal Oracle7.

I'm not a programmer and I really don't want to be. All I needed was a book to show me exactly how to set up a database that would allow the catalog pages on my website to be created on the fly. My website, MagicTricks.Com, is the largest online source of information on magic, magic history, magicians and their amazing feats. The site also features a huge online shop of professional magic supplies. Until I read this book, I was forced to create separate, static HTML pages for each of the 1000+ items in the shop. That's a LOT of work! This book showed me exactly how to set up a database of the products, a template web page and the system for allowing custom web pages to be created for the products, depending on what the visitor wanted to see. The only caution is that you need this book plus the Microsoft Access program plus the Cold Fusion program. If you can read HTML, you can do this!

I read this book, and thought it was a good introduction into web databases. Yeah, the info is not up-to-date, but it still has a lot of usful information for the web database newbie.