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by John Connell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 880 pages
  • Publisher: WROX Press Ltd (1 Aug 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1861001061
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861001061
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.6 x 4.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
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This book covers all of the new and improved data-access features of Visual Basic 6 (VB6) and illustrates how to put the various components and techniques to work in real-world applications. The first chapter spells out the concepts of databases in general and then introduces the reader to the Data Control and the VB Data Form Wizard--a quick way to snap together a database interface. From there, author John Connell spends a few chapters illustrating how to code the data control and build a "bulletproof" user interface to your data.

After a discussion about planning your database structure, Connell steps you through the process of building a fully functional application that uses many important VB features. The chapters include screen shots, diagrams, and code snippets, with plenty of tips and step-by-step exercises. You can download the source code for the included examples from the publisher's Web site.

Once you have the preliminary education under your belt, the author presents Microsoft's Universal Data Access (UDA) architecture. He shows how to create your own data-bound ActiveX controls and use Active Server Pages (ASPs) to fetch and return database records via a Web browser. Connell finishes off this lengthy education with a brief foray into data mining and a discussion of how to export data to other applications. --Stephen Plain, Amazon.com

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This text is suitable for Visual Basic programmers who have read a single general introduction, like "Beginning Visual Basic", and want to get down to developing database applications for business. Database programming is a field on its own, and requires the assimilation of a wide range of information such a database theory, SQL and many others. This book pulls all those threads together into a single, organized flow.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent starting point to learn practical VB skills, 1 Jul 1999
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I strongly recommend purchasing a copy of Beginning VB6 Database, John Connell, Wrox, ISBN 1-861001-06-1. This book is superb. It's well written, easy to follow, and uses practical real-world-example-type labs to get you quickly up to speed on DB access and writing GOOD user interfaces. It also shows how to write re-usable code for those interfaces. If you don't feel like coding the examples they can be downloaded from the Wrox web site. I've learned a bunch of simple little things to improve my VB skills in the first 200 pages. This is essential reading if you want to learn VB skills that you can apply to business solutions, and it doesn't take a lot of time to get through the chapters. I can't say enough good things about this book. Probably the best "how to" computer book I've ever read. It also covers ADO 2.0. I checked it out from the library and was so impressed I purchased my own copy.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Tedious mainly. Could do with sharper editing., 6 April 2001
Unlike other reviewers I found this text a swamp of information and recommendations. To be fair this is not entirely the author's fault, that's just how MS products are developing. The first half of the text is devoted to the various form building Wizards. It is too long and tedious. I would have liked to have seen a lot more code and elaboration of computational principles here. The second half is better (from Chapter 7 onwards) there is a bit more here that computer scientists can get their teeth into. The author gives a good account of DAO and ADO, and emphasises the advantages of the latter. You'll probably see these advantages more clearly if you're an MS user. The section on SQL (around page 365)is brief, so you may need an ancilliary text. The book relies on the elementary biblio.mdb database to illustrate examples of this and that. This is a very limited database schema (compared with the PUBS2 in Sybase for instance).

The chapter on ADO and asp is quite limited but good as an introduction. Overall however, the client/server end of things is not covered in great detail.

A final point, do not expect to learn VB from this book. Despite the Wizards, forms etc,you need to know a bit of technical VB before you will understand some of the coding examples, e.g. sections dealing with control arrays.

If you have a very specific need to do VB database programming with MS bells and whistles this is a reasonable text. However, I have never been able to shake off my initial reaction to similar 'blockbuster' texts when they started appearing in the mid to late eighties - they try to do too much of the readers' thinking for them. It may well suit some people to have every mouse click and tab explicitly identified, but I doubt it. With so much detail abstracting your own conceptual model is made a greater chore.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A "Tour de Force", 29 Mar 2001
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It's barely possible to overestimate the value contained in this volume. John Connell covers a lot of ground and covers it well. He'll take you from zero to hero if you work through the subject matter dilligently. What I have learned will take weeks off development times.

There are errors in the code (aren't there always) but you can download reference code from Wrox. There are a few inconsistencies in coding style but these are trivial.

I would say more but I'm all fired up and I'm away to develop some applications (then I'll have lunch!).

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