Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server: Best Practice Architectures and Examples (7th Edition) (Microsoft Windows Server System Series)

By Peter Blackburn and William R. Vaughn

Book Overview

Since 1994 when he wrote his first "Hitchhiker''s Guide", William Vaughn has been providing developers all over the world the intimate details of how SQL Server can be accessed and managed from RAD... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321243625
• ISBN13: 9780321243621
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 1095 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great!!

I am very inmpressed with this book! This is one that will be dog earred.

Thank you Bill for another great journey.

So, you want to program SQL Server 2005 using Visual Basic 2005. Then you should buy this book. No one does things quite as Bill does. In a tour-de-force effort, Bill, with the some help from Peter, shares a treasure trove of valuable information about how to build the best data-enabled applications regardless of your skill level. Bill's a master and his experience with SQL Server is legendary. What's even better is you get...

This book is excellent

Bill Vaughn is a stickler for attention to detail. I wouldn't want to work for him :-) but it is truly priceless to have his knowledge, experience, and expertise handy in book form when you are faced with taming the beast that is SQL Server 2005, and programming against it. No stone is left unturned in this book, in true Bill Vaughn fashoin. He not only nails the fundamentals, but offers countless insights that come from...

In true "Hitchhiker" tradition

Bill Vaughn's Hitchhiker's series has been on my bookshelves since the first edition. I've always acknowledged Bill as one of the industry experts in SQL Server and his knowledge of the subject is well illustrated in the latest addition to his book series. The "Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server" can very well become the one "bible" you need on this topic if you insist on having only one book on any particular...

try understanding stored procedures

In sometimes pungent commentaries, Vaughn and Blackburn give a detailed education about properly using SQL Server, where Visual Studio is also used, to make the front end code. There is a tangled history of how Microsoft developed SQL Server, Visual Studio and accompanying languages like Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET. With perfect hindsight, the development trajectory performed by Microsoft might have been unnecessarily complex...