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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.268
EAN: 9781572318489
Edition: 6th
ISBN: 1572318481
Label: Microsoft Press
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 750
Platform: No Operating System
Publication Date: October 01, 1998
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Studio: Microsoft Press

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO VISUAL BASIC AND SQL SERVER, Sixth Edition, is for hands-on developers, development managers in medium-sized to large MIS development shops, and everyone else who wants to use Visual Basic to tap the power of SQL Server. Readers need a working knowledge of Visual Basic, an understanding of how SQL Server is administered, and the ability to create Transact-SQL commands and batches. The enclosed CD-ROM contains sample code from the book, a sample database, white papers, The Microsoft SQL Server Developer's Resource Kit, archived VBSQL and ODBC API chapters from the fifth edition and more.

Amazon.com Review:
Focusing on Visual Basic 6's new data-access resources, Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server is the definitive guide to Microsoft's database development tools. If you're concerned with creating a way for a Visual Basic application or control to talk to an SQL Server back end, this book most likely has the answers you need.

Microsoft has six major SQL interface solutions: Visual Basic SQL (VBSQL), Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), Data Access Objects (DAO)/Jet, DAO/ODBCDirect, Remote Data Objects (RDO), and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). William Vaughn covers all of them in this book, plus the low-level SQL Server interfaces. He includes quite a lot of sample code (in the text and on the companion CD-ROM) that shows how different access mechanisms open connections, perform queries, and return values. Sidebars and other supplementary nuggets of text use the first person to great effect--they enable Vaughn to share his considerable experience in a straightforward way.

ADO, the apparent replacement for most of Microsoft's other database-access technologies, receives especially lavish treatment. The author details each part of an ADO-facilitated transaction, and goes into depth on how to build custom ADO objects and how (and whether) to convert from RDO to ADO.

If yours is a Microsoft shop, this book will prove invaluable in connecting people to the data they need. --David Wall




Rating: - Arrogant MS "Guru" Cant Write
This book in a nutshell is horrible. I don't know what some of these other guys in the ratings are talking about...maybe they work for MS..who knows. They might as well call this book RDO VB5 and SQL Server 7..its out of date. The jokes vaughn makes (which is the whole book) are boring...you'd fall asleep after the first chapter. To make things worse...there is absolutely no pictures showing steps or a procedure to follow to create examples..its straight through boring text. A lot of this stuff barely works since at the time ADO was being worked on a bit more. There is NOT enough information on bounding data to VB from SQL Server. Do not waste your money....this book royally stinx!!!!

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Rating: - Arrogant MS "Guru" Cant Write
This book in a nutshell is horrible. I don't know what some of these other guys in the ratings are talking about...maybe they work for MS..who knows. They might as well call this book RDO VB5 and SQL Server 7..its out of date. The jokes vaughn makes (which is the whole book) are boring...you'd fall asleep after the first chapter. To make things worse...there is absolutely no pictures showing steps or a procedure to follow to create examples..its straight through boring text. A lot of this stuff barely works since at the time ADO was being worked on a bit more. There is NOT enough information on bounding data to VB from SQL Server. Do not waste your money....this book royally stinx!!!!

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Rating: - Badly In Need of an Update
This is not a bad book, but it is long out of date. If you're getting it to learn how to use ADO to connect to SQL Server 2000, like me while not totally useless I found most of the book dated. I would say I found only a few chapters that were relevant and then again even those were dated. If you want Vaughn go with his "ADO Examples and Best Practices" which is more up to date and is beautifully written and organised. But this book will do the trick, particularly if you have other supplemental books. I probably wouldn't buy it though if I had to do it again.

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Rating: - Visual basic and SQL Server Sixth Edition
I was hoping for a HOW-TO type of book and thought it would be. It is not a HOW-TO type of book. This book is a discussion about the various ways that VB can attach to a database and why to use those particular avenues. The first 2/3 of the book is a leading up to ADO but once you are there, the how-to part is NOT.

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Rating: - I should have listened!
This book will someday be a great show on PBS. But as far as learning VB and SQLS dont buy it. After several hundred pages of recent history I finally got to the reason I bought the book. On about page 800 and something the author finally talks about using an ADO Datagrid to SQL-S. Unfortunately he never goes beyond a simple example using the Data Object Wizard. I'm still looking and out $40.

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