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Professional Ado Rds Programming With Asp

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I first bought this book for the RDS part since I've been working with ADO since it got out. I tought I knew ADO and even though I knew a lot about it, I've learned as much about ADO than about RDS with this book!

Good for any programmers working with ADO, as always, Wrox made it possible for beginners to understand the book and for experienced programmers to learn new stuff.

Another must by Wrox and I'm waiting to get a hand on the "Professional Ado 2.5 Rds Programming With Asp 3.0" that should be coming out soon.

This is one of the worst technical books I have ever read. The first 6 chapters are redundant info that anyone working with ADO should have mastered. The examples are all 'By-The-Book' cases that have marginal relevance to real systems. The cover photo betrays the 'its not very serious' attitude conveyed by the authors. And like most WROX books much verbiage is spent marketing the technology. It is cheaper & easier to simply use the MSDN knowledgebase rather than waste money on this text.

This is a great book because it shows you exactly what you need to know. They get to the point effectively with every topic. I like the real world questions being answered. Like client side or server side cursors. And topics on how to write the more efficient rs object. The only problem I have with this book is the writers lack of expertise with other databases. Like MS SQL server, and Sybase SQL server. Getting information on pitfalls with other database platforms would be invaluable. They kind of tickled us with the Oracle info, I want more now.

Overall the book was good, but the hints and troubleshooting section made it great.

As a VB developer, I was looking for a book that gives a practical reference with real-world samples for ADO. This book delivers the goods. Though all samples are in VBScript, not in VB, it's still the best reference out there for ADO, not only for scripting, but also for standard VB applications.

The sample scripts are clear and concise, so you can focus on the methods and properties you need.

This book is so poorly-written as to be embarrassing. I wouldn't recommend this occluded text to anyone.

The chapters (10-13) on RDS made this book well worth it for me, since true client-side recordsets were integral to the suceess of a particular intranet project I was on (don't hold your breath waiting for any useful documentation from Microsoft on RDS). Some of your own experimentation is necessary as you expand out further from the RDS examples they give. They could have taken RDS a bit further than they did, but what they gave was still helpful to me. Everything they do cover is well-represented with code examples.

I kind of thought the amount of space devoted to ADO was excessive, since if you're trying to implement RDS, you probably already know much of the ADO they teach here. Some of that space would have been better used to expand on RDS a bit.

The included ADO 2.0 reference (Appendix A) and RDS 2.0 reference (Appendix B) are useful, and the sections on Oracle are helpful if your code has to work against Oracle backends.

One other note: In books like this, I rely on the index a lot to quickly get to topics I need. The index in this book is pretty bad. If you want to reference things for future use in this book, buy yourself a highlighter pen.

Bottom line, if you need to use RDS, bite the bullet (kind of expensive) and get this book. For ADO, however, you might want to look elsewhere.

I had developed 2 projects using ADO and ASP before, now I have a third. This time I decieded to get more information about this matter and bought this book which I found of great help. If you really are an experienced user you don't need this book, but if you are new or intermediate get this book, you wont't be dissappointed. It is worth the money I spent. BUY IT. I am getting all I need to build my third project.

I am an Internet Engineer for a Fortune 500 company. I recently designed and implemented an enterprise-level customer service Intranet application. This book provided many thorough explanations and examples of advanced ADO features.

I made heavy use of disconnected recordsets and data shapes, both of which I did not know how to use before reading this text. These methods allowed me to store recordset objects in session variables (remember, this was an Intranet application so I could dictate the client browser) and thus greatly reduce the load on the back-end database.

Criticisms are few and far between. I found a few nit-picky errors, nothing major. I also would have appreciated a chapter with tips on creating MTS COM objects, but I realize that topic can span an entire book (and it has).

I appreciated this book so much that after I had purchased and expensed a copy for my department's reference library, I went back and bought another copy for my personal collection. It definitely earns a five star rating.

Awesome book for somebody wanting to learn more about ADO/ASP/Database Interaction. I was dumped into the middle of a project with very little ADO knowledge and this proved extremly helpfull through my journey. I have recommended this to all of my friends interested in the subject and countless others who ask me for good books.. Definitly worth every penny!