ODBC 3.5 Developer's Guide [Paperback]

Roger E. Sanders (Author)

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Publication Date: September 10, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0070580871 | ISBN-13: 978-0070580879 | Edition: Pap/Dsk

While other guides may overload you with everything you could possibly know about ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), this one delivers exactly the information you need - no more, no less. Perfect for intermediate- to advanced-level developers, it's your complete, time-saving, at-a-glance guide to mastering ODBC 3.5, the Call Level Interface standard for communicating between relational and object-relational database systems in the Windows environment.

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Concise yet complete-the developer's definitive guide to ODBC command structure and syntax. While other guides may overload you with everything you could possibly know about ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), this one delivers exactly the information you need--no more, no less. Perfect for intermediate- to advanced-level developers, it's your complete, time-saving, at-a-glance guide to mastering ODBC 3.5, the Call Level Interface standard for communicating between relational and object-relational database systems in the Windows environment. Inside, you'll find full coverage of core concepts, including a frank discussion of the advantages and drawbacks of using

Product Details

• Paperback: 974 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; Pap/Dsk edition (September 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070580871
• ISBN-13: 978-0070580879
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #520,210 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Roger E. Sanders is the President of Roger Sanders Enterprises, Inc. and a Senior Consultant Corporate Systems Engineer with EMC Corporation. He has been working with DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows since it was first introduced on the IBM PC (as part of OS/2 1.3 Extended Edition) and is the author of twenty-two books on relational database technology (twenty-one books are on DB2 and one book is on ODBC). For the past nine years, Roger has authored the Distributed DBA column in IBM Data Management Magazine (formerly DB2 Magazine) and, over a fourteen year period, he has written numerous tutorials and articles for IBM's developerWorks website as well as for publications like Certification Magazine and IDUG Solutions Journal (the official magazine of the International DB2 User's Group). In 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011, Roger was recognized as an IBM Champion for his contributions to the IBM Data Management community; in 2010, he was recognized as an IBM developerWorks Contributing Author, and in 2011, he was recognized as an IBM developerWorks Professional Author for his contributions to IBM's developerWorks web site. He lives in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina (population 39,042).

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't cover ODBC 3.5 specification completely., August 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: ODBC 3.5 Developer's Guide (Paperback)

Although the author notes this book doesn't contain any Unicode issue, there are many incorrect descriptions regarding the text data type and missing information about ODBC 3.5 new features. For example, column size of data may represent the length of data in characters in case the data is text, while this book describe explicitly "in bytes". The meanings are totally different especially when you handle non-Latin text data. I should recommend the serious user/developer to get Microsoft official documents and I should say this book is not based on ODBC 3.5, rather, ODBC 3.0.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars WARNING: Book does not contain the ODBC SQL Grammar, May 5, 1999

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This review is from: ODBC 3.5 Developer's Guide (Paperback)

I bought the book based on the Amazon description of it being "complete" and "designed to provide you with everything you need" and was disappointed to find that it does not contain the ODBC SQL grammar. So it is NOT complete. I could not even find any references in it to how to find the SQL Grammar. Without knowing the ODBC SQL grammar it would be hard to write an interoperable application (the point of ODBC after all) with only this book.

The book, however, is excellent (5 stars), especially with the ODBC specification development history, but incomplete, and the Amazon blurbs(1 star) misleading.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best code development guide I've ever seen, March 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: ODBC 3.5 Developer's Guide (Paperback)

A software development book has to be pretty good for me to give it a 5 star rating, and this one really is. An associate of mine said he needed to learn more about ODBC, and I explained that this book is great as a reference AND as a tutorial. That's a claim that can be made about a precious few books. Later, I happened to be reading the foreword (not written by the author of the book), and that's exactly what the guy who wrote it said about this book, and it really is true. Things in this book are where I expect them to be. I don't have to look very long to find what I want. If you need to do ODBC programming, I can't imagine that there's a better book out there to use as a guide.