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Visual C++ 6 Database Programming Tutorial

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I am a novice programmer, so, if I feel it is an elementary treatment of the subject matter, you should believe me. Over the past 6 months, I have read 10 books on programming with Visual C++ (including MFC, ATL, COM, database). This book would have been more useful if the author had concentrated simply on OLEDB programming for Visual C++. The intro material on database basics is insufficient to help the absolute beginner, but is too elementary for the majority of people who have an interest in database development. The same statement can be made about the author's discussion of COM. However, the most disconcerting fact is that the cornerstone chapter (Chap. 6, "An OLE DB Consumer Example") is based on a SQL Server database. If this book is geared towards the mass market of beginning database programmers, why wouldn't the author use a mass market database as was used in the other chapters(Microsoft Access)? What novice database programmer is going to have free access to SQL Server? Wrox Press editors should have realized this and at least provided the sample database in this chapter in both SQL Server format and Access format. Other than these comments, it is a useful book for the absolute beginner if you are willing to transpose SQL Server data into Access.

I agree with the other reviewers that it is just a basic overview of the subject and if the wanted to cover SQL Server there should have also been a version for Access. In fact I think Wrox should provide an Access version on their web site.

Also, who ever edited the book needs to go back to English 101. It has way too many grammatical errors making me believe no one read the book before it was published.

As with all books I did however get bits and pieces of useful information on OLE DB consumer templates but since I am writing this review I have to comment on how many books are published that contain the same basic information. Why don't publishers get authors that write books with real world example. I am tried of looking at book after book that shows you how to draw a line. In terms of this book, if the author could have talked about and showed how to use the various data bound controls that come with VC 6, that would have been useful. Basically you have to get VB books if you want information on that topic.

This book does not help beginners. I have had several people try and follow through the examples. Much material is missing in the "how to". It is difficult to figure out where examples are being used in the book that will be used in future examples.

Not well organized. Can't follow the examples when I can find them.

As someone who has basic skills in Visual C++ and a little better knowledge of databases and using Access, I found this book to be more of a help than a hinderance. I learned a few extra things that were of relevance to me. I found its explanation of MFC to be helpful, while the first 2 chapters were review of old info for me.

Before buying it, however, I'd try to find it at a university library or get it though interlibrary loan.

"An introductory book that attempts to cover the main data access technologies currently in use, including ODBC, DAO, OLE DB, ADO AND RDS."

Keeping that in mind, the author accomplished that task.

I have to agree with the folks that panned this book. I don't know what the reviewers who applauded it were looking at.

Sadly this is another example of what we see too much from Wrox, a hastily written, superficial, badly edited ( I would say not edited at all. I can't believe the number of typos and grammatical errors. ) book rushed into print to try and cash in.

For shame, Wrox.

An excellent book to learn C++ database programming using MFC and ATL. The examples are clear and the code compiles and works! I am a professional Visual Basic programmer who uses ADO in building Visual Basic interfaces to Access, Oracle and SQL Server databases. I have C++ experience, but little C++ Windows programming experience. I highly recommend this book if you want to learn C++ database programming.

This book is awful! The books loses focus and forgets who its audience is over and over. There are discussions about the mandatory features that need to be implemented when writing a database driver, Visual Source Safe, and many other topics that don't have any thing to with writing a C++ database application.

To make matter worse the book is also riddled with typos - both grammar and code. The book spends more time discussing MFC than it does implementing the database code. The coding style displayed in this book is that of a beginner. If you are an beginner programmer this is an example of how NOT to program. The code is very inconsistent and poorly laid out. Functions for common pieces of code are never created and instead copied each time that it is needed - sometimes 3 or 4 times in one tiny example application).

This isn't the typical book that you would expect from Wrox. Their books are normally solid, but this one really misses the mark. Save your money.

This book is a very basic introduction to database programming for a beginner. If you have written programs with VC++ for databases before then this book is not for you. It start with a good introduction to ADO, DAO, OLE and ODBC. It has you write some very basic programs that connect to the database. Buy this if you have never written a DB application before.

I ordered "Professional Database Programming with Visual C++ 6.0", what I got was "Visual C++ 6 Database Programming Tutorial". Same ISBN number, same author, so not an amazon.com error.

When I ordered this (pre-publication), it was billed as an advanced database programming book. In actuality, it is a lightly re-worded collection of information readily available for free in Microsoft white papers and doco included with the Visual C++ CD set.

This book would be more aptly titled "Visual C++ Database Programming for Morons", and more aptly priced at $20. Even in the inflated world of programming books, $50is WAY too much money for such fluff. For that kind of money, I expect a book written by an experienced programmer who has done real homework and has something of value to relate. Not regurgitation of Microsoft documentation and code samples generated by the Visual C++ AppWizard.

I can't believe the author actually put in code samples which were copied directly from running the database AppWizards! The code is trivial, and adds nothing to what is already available. The author apparently barely studied the material she presents, and she certainly doesn't appear to understand it very well or have done any substantive programming with the technologies she presents.

Another loser from Wrox Press -- shame on the editors at Wrox for wasting paper with this.

This is no 400 pages as advertised -- it is a VERY light 327 pages.

Fortunately, I bought this book from Amazon -- I'm just in the process of mailing it back for a refund.

This book is so full of grammatical and typographical errors, it is virtually unreadable. I read through about half the book and gave up. There are an average of 5 errors per page - that's over 1000 errors in a 200 page book! I want my money back. The author and publisher should be ashamed to have offered this book to the public.