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Java Database Programming with JDBC: Discover the Essentials for Developing Databases for Internet and Intranet Applications

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You would think that a book about JDBC programming would show you how to program using JDBC. Well, in this case, you would be absolutely wrong. It (very poorly) talks about what JDBC is, what SQL is, what a JDBC driver is, but IT NEVER TALKS ABOUT JDBC PROGRAMMING!!!! IT NEVER TELLS YOU HOW TO USE ANY OF THE JDBC CLASSES TO ACTUALLY PROGRAM SOMETHING THAT USES JDBC. It's like driving your wife to the hospital to give birth, but forgetting your wife. And remember, everything it talks about is poorly written.

I just finish studying this book... and want to throw this book out of my window... I own "Inside ODBC" (MS Press). If it is 10, this book is 2..

I suggest author combine part 1, 2, and 5 into one part and condense the content.. Part 3 teach you how to write a JDBC driver, must be useful to driver developer, Part 4 walks through some samples, for general reader, this part is most helpful..

My conclusion is if you are a JDBC driver developer and want to know some about SQL and database programming. Buy this book. Otherwise, buy O'Relly's JDBC book. It is much better than this book!!

I found this book to be really good and it gives a great overview of Java programming with JDBC. This book really has a lot of condensed material, and quickly covers a lot of areas. I was able to use the first application right off the bat to connect to a PostgreSQL database and do some simple queries. There is a lot to RDBMS accessed through JDBC, so I would suggest that readers prepare to review web servers, TCP/IP ports and client web browser java security problems. Make sure to get a good reference book for SQL, it will be a good investment for the future. The reader should also have a good grasp of programming with java and be ready to sit in the driver's seat. This book gets my thumb of approval.

I got the 2nd edition after using the middleware chapter of the 1st edition. They repeat the mistakes of the first! On page 13, it states that a combination of ROWS can be used to compose a primary key. It should read a combination of COLUMNS! Half of the book is just a repeat of the 1st edition, word for word! Very little proofreading went into this book. Commented out debugging aids are left in the code.

This book is so poor that I have never got any useful information about JDBC from it. We can not hope one book can cover everything, but at least one thing. This author hopes he can tell the readers more about SQL, JDBC driver, Java. In fact, almost all us do not want to get these from a JDBC book. Just give us some interesting examples and tell us how to us JDBC. If you just want to start to use JDBC, the JDBC tutorial is much more useful than this book.

The book skims by too fast on just about every single topic and the code is not discussed. So if you want to write anything slightly different you are left hanging. Nothing in here I hadn't already learned from the online documentation available. Ok, if you're starting .. poor if you want to do serious JDBC developmen

Don't be fooled by people who skim through a book without reading it. The authors go into great detail of the inner working of the JDBC. The section on developing JDBC drivers is useful to the advanced JDBC developer (like me). The "Projects" section also provides many real examples with source code to show you how to develop client/server and servlet JDBC programs. For the beginner, there are simple, step-by-step details for connecting your Java program to a database. Great book, with lots of indepth coverage compared to other JDBC books.