Teach Yourself Database Programming With Jdbc in 21 Days (Teach Yourself Series) [Paperback]

Ashton Hobbs (Author)

Book Description

Series: Teach Yourself Series | Publication Date: April 1997

Teach Yourself WWW Database Programming with Java in 21 Days shows you how to turn your web page into a robust, interactive repository of information and services. CD-ROM includes valuable source code and powerful utilities.

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Following this series' trademark combination of step-by-step tutorials and tables full of reference material, Teach Yourself Database Programming with JDBC in 21 Days does a fine job of preparing you to take on a new assignment involving JDBC. True mastery won't come until many more days of JDBC programming have passed and you'll soon want a more advanced reference book to guide you beyond this book. However, Hobbs's book is a fine way to get your feet wet.

The first two weeks of this self-paced course are academic--day by day, you study one or more new concepts, components, or objects. In these two weeks, you learn about the essentials of JDBC--establishing connections and the like. Each chapter--covering topics such as transactions, SQL statements, and result sets--concludes with a quiz, which you can use to gauge your progress through the book. During the final week, when your new knowledge is beginning to gel, you actually write two database applications. The first, a "knowledge base" program, illustrates general JDBC techniques by enabling you to query a database for articles. The second, an "employee resource" program for tracking employee data, mainly shows how things in Java 1.1 differ from Java 1.0--a sort of dated distinction. In any case, it's these guided examples and the source code on the companion CD-ROM that make this book good.

From the Publisher

Linking both corporate and home databases to the Web is critical for a Web site to be successful. And Sun's JDBC API allows users to do just that! Using a step-by-step , conversational approach, users will learn how to develop JDBC components to create complete database applications for Web connection. - Explores database basics, JDBC interfaces, database connectivity and transactions, and more

- CD-ROM is packed with all the source code from the book, two complete, real-world database examples, and a Web page linking to several useful JDBC resources

Product Details

• Paperback: 524 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Sams Publishing (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575211238
• ISBN-13: 978-1575211237
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,335,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Look elsewhere for JDBC Book, May 17, 1999

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This review is from: Teach Yourself Database Programming With Jdbc in 21 Days (Teach Yourself Series) (Paperback)

This Book does not give a lot of information about JDBC except for the first 7 days , the Rest is going nowhere with bad coding exambles.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for absolute beginner of the subject but not for others, April 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Database Programming With Jdbc in 21 Days (Teach Yourself Series) (Paperback)

This is probably a good beginer's source. Not for those who understand the concepts of JDBC and Java. The book, on the back cover, implies that this is for Advanced to Experiences users, but I do not think so. The examples in the book teach you the JDBC and how to create your own objects and interfaces around it. Too basic if you know Java and has been programming in it for a while.

If you are a beginner do not hesitate to buy this book. The accompanied CD will be a great source for you to run through the examples and to start off with few sample projects of your own. The author had a good style in teaching the subject with well chosen examples and coverage of the concepts and explanation of those examples.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written, quickly thrown together, July 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Database Programming With Jdbc in 21 Days (Teach Yourself Series) (Paperback)

This book spends perhaps a third of its time concentrating on JDBC while the remaining two thirds gives a very sketchy overview of Java programming that would be over the heads of most beginners. Many of the examples don't work. I spent a great deal of time debugging the examples to get them to work.