- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill; Pap/Dsk edition (1 Aug 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0070580871
- ISBN-13: 978-0070580879
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 6.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 797,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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While other guides may overload you with everything you could possibly know about ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), this one delivers exactly the information you need - no more, no less. Perfect for intermediate- to advanced-level developers, it's your complete, time-saving, at-a-glance guide to mastering ODBC 3.5, the Call Level Interface standard for communicating between relational and object-relational database systems in the Windows environment.
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Written by a programmer for programmers !
This 975+ page book is designed to provide you with everything you need to develop ODBC applications. The first six chapters provide in-depth information about ODBC (what it is, how it works, how ODBC applications are developed, etc.) and the remaining nine chapters provide detailed information about each ODBC API available -- along with a working C++ example that demonstrates how the API is used in an application program. Additionally, a graphic bar located at the begining of each API quickly identifes the versions of ODBC that support it (1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5) and the international standards that the API conforms to (X/Open and ISO/IEC 92). All example programs shown in the book are provided on an accompanying diskette and Appendix D walks you through the steps needed to configure ODBC, compile, and execute them.
This 975+ page book is designed to provide you with everything you need to develop ODBC applications. The first six chapters provide in-depth information about ODBC (what it is, how it works, how ODBC applications are developed, etc.) and the remaining nine chapters provide detailed information about each ODBC API available -- along with a working C++ example that demonstrates how the API is used in an application program. Additionally, a graphic bar located at the begining of each API quickly identifes the versions of ODBC that support it (1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5) and the international standards that the API conforms to (X/Open and ISO/IEC 92). All example programs shown in the book are provided on an accompanying diskette and Appendix D walks you through the steps needed to configure ODBC, compile, and execute them.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book made a lot of things very clear. The source code is well encapsulated into working examples, leaving the text to explain the detail of what is happening. I did notice SQL_CURSOR_TYPE doesn't appear in the index but is in the book in Ch11. The API index helped me solve development problems rapidly, efficiently and with some degree of authority in decisions taken. Worth the money. Well done Roger Sanders for an entirely readable book. The differences between 3.x and 2.0 are pointed out in this book. The assurance that 3.x talks 2.0 helped make design decisions very early on in the development procedure. What more can I say? Buy it now!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A software development book has to be pretty good for me to give it a 5 star rating, and this one really is. An associate of mine said he needed to learn more about ODBC, and I explained that this book is great as a reference AND as a tutorial. That's a claim that can be made about a precious few books. Later, I happened to be reading the foreword (not written by the author of the book), and that's exactly what the guy who wrote it said about this book, and it really is true. Things in this book are where I expect them to be. I don't have to look very long to find what I want. If you need to do ODBC programming, I can't imagine that there's a better book out there to use as a guide.
Format:Paperback
The book is good. There are many samples that were coompiled and worked without extra changes. This book is a good addition to ODBC SDK.
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WARNING: Book does not contain the ODBC SQL Grammar
I bought the book based on the Amazon description of it being "complete" and "designed to provide you with everything you need" and was disappointed to find... Read more
Published on 5 May 1999
Not enough code ex. for beginners, but good fundamentals
I bought this book as an ODBC virgin. I had no clue what it did, but I knew I needed to know. This book is good in explaining the fundamentals of ODBC, but when it gets to the... Read more
Published on 11 Dec 1998
One of the best guide/reference book on programming I know
This book is one of the best comprehensive guides/referebnces I've ever seen in the area of programming - and I've seen it quite a bit. Read more
Published on 3 Nov 1998
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