Teach Yourself Ole Db and Ado in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself...) [Paperback]

John Fronckowiak (Author)

Book Description

Series: Sams Teach Yourself... | Publication Date: August 1997

This volume aims to teach readers to develop distributed Web-based, data-base applications using OLE DB, ADO, Visual J++, VBScript and Visual InterDev as well as how to integrate key Microsoft server-side technologies into the development process to achieve maximum benefit.

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Teach Yourself ADO and OLE DB in 21 Days is a tutorial that will guide the reader through the latest Microsoft server-side technologies and how they can develop distributed Web-based database applications. - Learn OLE DB and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)

- Utilize ADO and OLE DB for deploying distributed database applications

- Discover how ADO and OLE DB work with new technologies such as ADC, Visual InterDev, Transaction Server and ActiveX Server Pages

Product Details

• Paperback: 648 pages
• Publisher: SOS Free Stock (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067231083X
• ISBN-13: 978-0672310836
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,252,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very helpful once you have a base COM & Ole db understanding, August 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Ole Db and Ado in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself...) (Paperback)

this is the only book I could find on OLE DB besides SDK docs, so for that alone I am happy to have it. I did find his step by step approach to developing an oledb app was very helpful, once I had gathered enough knowledge from other sources about COM & some basic Ole db knowledge. this is a good book if you are an intermediate at com and have a basic familiarity with oledb and of course have a good grasp of c++; it was at that point that I found the book very helpful. But plan on reading other materials first to get your base understanding of com & ole db before benefitting from this book (and it was annoying to see comments stating that memset was allocating memory). This book does fill a good niche though to help you get from a base understanding of ole db to a very strong intermediate level (helped me do that anyway) and it saved me a lot of time making that leap that I couldn't have done without reading this book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a very useful book, May 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Ole Db and Ado in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself...) (Paperback)

A lot of computer book authors and publishers take the easy way out. Instead of working hard to produce an original, clear explanation of their topic, they hastily slop together a whole lot of reference material -- anything will do -- put an attractive cover on it, and market it as "just the book you need to understand X". I'm sure I'm not the only one who is sick of these shoddy products. Unfortunately, this book is one of them. The introductory material on COM isn't enough to help a beginner, and is a waste of space for those who already know it. The OLE DB material is little more than a catalog of interfaces - an inferior rehash of the OLE DB documentation. The sample programs (which also add little to what you can already find in the OLE DB Reference) make use of numerous concepts and methods which are nowhere explained. Such samples are useless if you don't already know what they're doing, but if you do already know, then you don't need the book! Why do they think we buy these things?

If you're a beginner at COM, don't even think about buying this book. (There are several good books on COM -- get two or three of them instead.) If, like me, you're looking for an overview of OLE DB, a clear explanation of what it is and how it works, this book doesn't contain anything remotely resembling that.

P.S. There are also many things in this book which I find irritating. Example: since when does memset "allocate memory"? (pp. 40, 41)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of time/money, February 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Ole Db and Ado in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself...) (Paperback)

This book seems to be mostly a printout of the help documentation with a few frills. It is downright insulting that books like this can actually reach the market :( It is riddled with statements such as 'Using storage interfaces to access BLOBs is covered in Chapter (Day) 5, but there's nothing remotely like that in Chapter 5. You're better off just using the SDK documentation.