Creating Cool Web Databases (Paperback)

~ (Author), Carol McCullough (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The World Wide Web offers a great way to make information both accessible and useful, whether it's to everyone in the world or just to your own workgroup. By combining your database with the Internet or an intranet, your Web site becomes a work site, usable by others regardless of platform or geography. But how do you do it? In Creating Cool Web Databases database and multimedia experts Joseph Sinclair and Carol McCullough show you all the tricks -- how to incorporate multimedia, manage databases and process information with CGI scripts, use search engines, and import and export data across platforms. Even better, this all-in-one package includes a CD-ROM containing Windows and Mac versions of real-world demonstration projects, CGI database scripts, a Web search engine, Oracle database engines, and the Oracle Power Browser.

Product Details

• Paperback: 469 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers) (October 9, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764530194
• ISBN-13: 978-0764530197
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,784,389 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time on this one, May 27, 1998

By A Customer

I don't know who the authors or publishers thought this book would appeal to, possibly some Dilbert-world middle-manager who'd like to fling buzzwords around, but certainly not anyone trying to do real work. The table of contents is very impressive, too bad there isn't any content to back it up.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You'll need more than just the book., April 9, 1998

By A Customer

I learned a few nice buzzwords, and found out what all the other things are I'll need to learn to build web databases, but this book starts out by telling you "we've left out the programming...that's for experts". That was my first clue that I wasn't going to learn many new things in this one. A beginner won't get many of the good basics here, and programmers won't learn anything new. The topics are all over the place. There doesn't appear to be a clear target audience for this book!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely poor, September 1, 1999

By A Customer

This book will teach you everything you need to know about putting a database on the web except how to put a database on the web. It describes how to make a basic database and how to make a basic web page, but whenever the subject of actually connecting the two comes up, the author says the scripting is too hard and you should hire a consultant.

This book is a complete waste of money.