Visual Basic Oracle 8 Programmer's Reference [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Dov Trietsch (Author), Mike Erickson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Programmer's Reference | Publication Date: January 1999

This book provides a concise and comprehensive guide to accessing Oracle databases with Visual Basic. With an introduction to Oracle, there is an explanation to how ADO fits into Oracle database access and describes both 0040 and ADO access. Detailed explanations show how ADO interfaces with the core OLE-DB data access driver model. A reference section for fast access to the VB-Oracle integration methods is included and performance tips for optimizing Oracle access through VB. Both Personal Oracle and Oracle Server are covered to provide a comprehensive reference to the various ways the Visual Basic user can create and access Oracle databases.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Visual Basic is the leading database client development tool, with Microsoft research indicating that 70% of all VB applications are database-centric. Oracle database programming has become a major branch of professional VB database programming. VB and Oracle integration is in a growth phase, with Microsoft continuing to extend its support of Oracle in the Visual Studio Programming suite. VB programming enables oracle skills to be acquired and enables a link to VB applications and large powerful databases. This book assumes knowledge of VB and introduces Oracle, for those who wish to take Visual Basic past the beginning stage and into more complex database development with Oracle as the database server. While the focus will be on Oracle, many of the topics that are covered will be applicable to all database systems, especially server-based databases.

About the Author

Dov Trietsch has been a professional Programmer/Analyst for over thirty years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: Peer Information Inc.; 1st edition (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861001789
• ISBN-13: 978-1861001788
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,506,730 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reader, May 20, 2000

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RIDVAN ARIK - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visual Basic Oracle 8 Programmer's Reference (Paperback)

This book will sharpen your VB skill especially when it deals with OOP, but you really want to get it for the wealth of information about Oracle.

We got a few copies of the book and distributed them among our programmers. Various members of the team had different skill that needed to be sharpened. Some needed a refresher course in SQL, others who came from legacy systems and learned only the basics of VB got a bit about OOP, all needed to learn about stored procedures and PL/SQL. This simple and short book gave us all of that and much more.

We have opted to use ADO as our conduit to the database. The book gives us a complete reference to ADO and 3 chapters guided us in its use with Oracle. It starts with simple Recordsets and moves all the way to writing robust code using stored procedures and ADO.

We've used the code in the book as a staring point to our project.

If you have limited shelf space and need just one book, this is the book to have

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for the VB pro who wants to learn Oracle, December 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Visual Basic Oracle 8 Programmer's Reference (Paperback)

I found it to be an Excellent Learning tool for SQL and Oracle. The chapters dealing with SQL and PL/SQL are real gems. The applications are simple enough yet encompassing enough to serve as real-life example of how to code VB, SQL, and PL/SQL for a successful project.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What the Doctor ordered!, March 20, 2000

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Bear Trest (Mount Laurel, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visual Basic Oracle 8 Programmer's Reference (Paperback)

There are only two books that guide the programmer through the maze of using Oracle in VB. After evaluating both, We've offered "VB Oracle 8 Programmers guide" to our programmers as a lead to a recent project. We've developed the project completely based on the guidelines in the book. This is a complete guide to everything we needed to know and we used the code samples as the basis for our successful project. Another advantage, our programmers learned SQL, PL/SQL and advanced their level of Object Oriented Programming in VB.