Web Database Development Step by Step (Dv-Dlt Fundamentals) [Paperback]

Jim Buyens (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dv-Dlt Fundamentals | Publication Date: June 3, 2000

As Web sites continue to grow in complexity and in the volume of data they must present, databases increasingly drive their content. "Web Database Development Fundamentals" is ideal for the beginning-to-intermediate Web developer, departmental power user, or entrepreneur who wants to step up to a database-driven Web site -- without buying several in-depth guides to the different technologies involved. This book uses the clear Microsoft "RM" Step by Step tutorial method to familiarize developers with the technologies for building smart Web sites that present data more easily.

Product Details

• Paperback: 425 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (June 3, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735609667
• ISBN-13: 978-0735609662
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,645,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource for Beginners, October 1, 2000

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This review is from: Web Database Development Step by Step (Dv-Dlt Fundamentals) (Paperback)

People, it does not break down any easier than this! This book explains all the basics in clear, concise, and easy to follow examples. Be warned, you will not want to stop learning after reading this book. Probably the most impressive facet of this book is that it uses Notepad (or any text editor) for all examples of ASP despite its ties to Microsoft. It uses Access for database examples as it is the most readily available. This book does a great job demystifying the "data-driven" web page. If you are beginner or a web author with some fuzzy notions of data-driven web pages (as I was), get this book. 6-stars!!!

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Helpful, August 31, 2000

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Chris Carrell "book bug" (Bothell, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Web Database Development Step by Step (Dv-Dlt Fundamentals) (Paperback)

When I started reading this book, I knew nothing of ASP, ADO AcitveX, XML or even HTML. Using only this book, I built a moderately complex, Microsoft-centric, web accessed database from scratch.

The book gives you just enough information to get the job done.

Easy read. Straight to the point. Helpful examples.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great starting point..., October 19, 2001

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Scott B. Leonard (Watertown, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Web Database Development Step by Step (Dv-Dlt Fundamentals) (Paperback)

This is a great starting point for anyone looking to take their database to the web. Of course, if you have some prior knowledge of ASP and VBscript, it makes it much easier. Although I have many years of VB and SQL Server experience, I still read this in its entirety and found some great info for taking some of the DB's at my job to our corporate intranet and across the internet.

This book takes you step by step (as the title implies) from designing your database (predominantly in Access although he explains how to connect to other databases) to getting it accessible through the web. The examples are great and they tend to build on each other. By the end of the book you should have a good foundation to design any type of data driven website you can imagine and password authenticate it as well.

If you are starting out and you are using Microsoft software, then this is a literal cookbook for web database success. Kudos to Jim Buyens for putting out an informative book that reads quickly.