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JDBC: Practical Guide for Java Programmers (The Practical Guides)

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I have to disagree with the title. As an experienced programmer I found the book to be nearly useless. It's well written and gives a quick overview of JDBC, but if you plan to actually develop using JDBC, you're going to need much more. I might recommend this for students or managers needing to know what JDBC is or when to use it, but not for learning how to use it.

This is a good intro to selecting one or several records or updating one or several records using the JDBC api, with examples in Java. He also provides actual java classes based on the java api, but I didn't find his classes very reusable - I don't think it was very good OO design, just good JDBC examples. I bought the book to get some source code that I could re-use, but it was just too terse. Now that I am learning Design Patterns, I might look at his code again, with the idea of rewriting it. Most people are better of learning Hibernate.

I found this book to be an excellent book on JDBC. It is packed with very practical code for accessing databases. The examples "build" upon themselves using classes which inherit from previously created classes. This was extremely insightful in building code which uses a true object oriented approach ( with the added benefit of making the entire book fit together in a logical manner.) I recommend it highly. Well done Greg.