Programming ADO [With Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual J++]

by David Sceppa

A book/CD-ROM package for mastering Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and exploiting the Universal Data Access in ADO. Explains the ADO object model, then focuses on building proficiency with ADO... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735607648
• ISBN13: 9780735607644
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Programmer's Gold Book

I am an ASP programmer with a little more than a year experience and I always was looking for a book that would explain me when and how to use right technique for better performance in my applications.This book explains very well and in very easy language things that were missing in my knowledge because ASP books usually do not cover them (by the way English is my second language).I am very happy because I have this book now. I think it is programmer's Gold Book and it is worth more than all other ASP books that I read before. I discovered for myself details about ADO programming that I didn't know and didn't understand before.Thank you for David Sceppa!

Extremely good, real world ADO coverage.

David Sceppa works in Developer Support at Microsoft, and it shows in this book. Each chapter has a section entitled "Questions that should be asked more frequently", that is full of useful information that shows his experience in the trenches.His Visual Basic sample code is actually good quality code, unlike code in so many other books. This is important because so many developers pick up bad coding habits from sloppy sample code in books.All in all, this is a great book, with detailed yet readable coverage of the subject.

REQUIRED READING

I have read many books, but i approached this one thinking it could be something like reading ADO reference in MSDN. But i was wrong. This book is fundamental if you really want to know how to use ADO and how ADO works. Believe me, you will learn MANY interesting things about ADO. You can use ADO without reading this book, but you will lose very important knowledge of this important technology.

Required Reading for Professional Programmers

I literally use this book everyday troubleshooting clients ADO problems. I have other ADO books on my shelf but David's explanation of ADO's functionality plus his insight and suggestions on how to code with ADO make this book my number one ADO resource. As other reviewers have said the ADO documentation is lacking in many areas and David has filled in these gaps with his extensive knowledge of the technology and his own hard won experience.Here is an example of David's insight, experience, and humor when it comes to dealing with ADO Cursors, "Back-end databases, OLE DB providers, ODBC drivers, CursorLocations, CursorType, LockType, CommandType, oh my! What's a database developer to do? With a little experience and a lot of reading, you'll develop a good feel for which combinations are possible and which aren't." This quote of from Chapter 7 Cursors, Foiled Again and the section is titled You Can't Always Get What You Want. In this chapter David does a great job of guiding us developers through what is known and what is not know about this part of ADO. It is this type of guidance and insight that I want the most when I am developing new ADO applications and when I am troubleshooting ADO code.If you have any dealings with ADO then you simply must get this book.

Thorough and well documented

It is about time that someone put out a concise and accurate volume on ADO and its functionality. Bravo!