Mastering C# Database Programming [Paperback]

Jason Price (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 6, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0782141838 | ISBN-13: 978-0782141832 | Edition: 1

Enter a New World of Database Programming

C# and ADO.NET facilitate the development of a new generation of database applications, including remote applications that run on the Web. Mastering C# Database Programming is the resource you need to thrive in this new world. Assuming no prior experience with database programming, this book teaches you every aspect of the craft, from GUI design to server development to middle-tier implementation. If you're familiar with earlier versions of ADO, you'll master the many new features of ADO.NET all the more quickly. You'll also learn the importance of XML within the new .NET paradigm. Coverage includes:

• Accessing a database using C# and ADO.NET
• Using SQL to access a database
• Using Visual Studio .NET to build applications
• Creating and modifying database tables
• Understanding ADO.NET classes
• Designing, building, and deploying Web applications that access a database
• Designing, building, and deploying effective Web services
• Using SQL Server's built-in XML capabilities
• Working with a database in a disconnected manner
• Using advanced transaction controls
• Using Transact-SQL to create stored procedures and functions in a SQL Server database

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Enter a New World of Database Programming

C# and ADO.NETfacilitate the development of a new generation of database applications,including remote applications that run on theWeb. Mastering C# Database Programming is the resource you need to thrivein this new world. Assuming no prior experience with database programming, thisbook teaches you every aspect of the craft, from GUI design to server developmentto middle-tier implementation. If you’re familiar with earlier versions ofADO, you’ll master the many new features of ADO.NET all the more quickly.You'll also learn the importance of XML within the new .NET paradigm. Coverageincludes:

• Accessing a database using C# andADO.NET
• Using SQL to access a database
• Using Visual Studio .NET to buildapplications
• Creating and modifying database tables
• Understanding ADO.NETclasses
• Designing, building, and deploying Web applications that access adatabase
• Designing, building, and deploying effective Web services
• UsingSQL Server’s built-in XML capabilities
• Working with a database in adisconnected manner
• Using advanced transaction controls
• UsingTransact-SQL to create stored procedures and functions in a SQL Server database

About the Author

Jason Price has more than 10 years' experience in the software industry. He is an MCSE, OCP, and has extensive experience with C#, .NET, and Java. He is the author of Sybex's Mastering Visual C# .NET and two Oracle books for other publishers. All his books have received 5-star reviews on Amazon.

Product Details

• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (May 6, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782141838
• ISBN-13: 978-0782141832
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #826,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful, June 15, 2004

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Michael Poore (Hilo, Hawaii) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mastering C# Database Programming (Paperback)

I found this book to be very helpful to me in connecting and using the Microsoft Access database with some Visual Studio C# programming I was struggling with. It is the only book I have found that at all addresses Access and it adequately covers the needed information to make the connection and manipulate data using SQL. Whether you are using Access of SQL2000 and especially if you are struggling I highly recommend this book to you.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Tutorial with lots of screenshots, April 27, 2004

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Jack D. Herrington "engineer and author" (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering C# Database Programming (Paperback)

The book has a tutorial style with tons of screenshots. It works through examples step by step with lots of code and not much exposition. If you want an on-rails guided tour to the .NET database APIs with C#, this book is for you. For me I would rather go with an introductory style which gives an overview of an entire API. An example is the chapter three section on SQL, which is thirty pages long. It only veers off the rails twice, once to talk about less than, greater than, equals to, etc. and another time to talk about and, not and or. The chapter spends only half a page on insert, delete and update. If you wanted to learn SQL from scratch you couldn't do it from this chapter, and if you already knew SQL, you would skip this chapter. So I'm not sure what the purpose is.

Conclusion, if you like "on-the-rails" tutorials and you want to learn .NET database programming that way, this book is for you.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars All in one, May 31, 2005

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Mohsen "Mohsen Massoud" (EGYPT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mastering C# Database Programming (Paperback)

very good book helps the programmer to get what he needs in the shortest time, well organized, very clear and has useful examples.
it covers many topics in one book (SQL server, ADO.NET and C# database programming) in a way that makes it easy to do your code without opening too many books.
the only limitation is that it covers only SQL server database programming, I wished if it covers alos Oracle and MySql.
thanks to Jason price