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

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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.

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.

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.

The author shows you good examples of using JDBC, dbAnywhere, and Sybase. An excellent jump start if you want to understand inner workings of JDBC application development. The author centers much of his JDBC examples around PowerBuilder concepts such as the datawindow and transaction object. If you knew PowerBuilder in the past you will feel very comfortable with this book.Only shortcomings. The book focuses on application development(meaning local development). No where does he give examples of how to write a database applet and make it work over the internet using dbAnywhere.

The author shows you good examples of using JDBC, dbAnywhere, and Sybase. An excellent jump start if you want to understand inner workings of JDBC application development. The author centers much of his JDBC examples around PowerBuilder concepts such as the datawindow and transaction object. If you knew PowerBuilder in the past you will feel very comfortable with this book.Only shortcomings. The book focuses on application development(meaning local development). No where does he give examples of how to write a database applet and make it work over the internet using dbAnywhere.