Customer Rating: 
Summary: Don't judge the book by it's cover!!
Comment: Don't expect you'll become the master of VB6 database programming by buying this book!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Unsatisfied
Comment: This book was not written with teaching in mind. It is a great reference book but if you are not familiar with coding in VB then you definitely need to buy another book! This book gives you great reference to what objects do but doesn't clarify at all on how to do them. It will tell you what you need to do to update a database's records but not how to code them.I've seen better books written for teaching. THis is not a teaching book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: If you're serious, ignore this book
Comment: I am an experienced programmer, and needed a book to enable me to understand ADO database programming in VB. I bought this book, and have regretted it. The examples are incomplete and miss important stages out. Its approach is confused and confusing. Having now done what I set out to do in VB/ADO, I can honestly say that very little of the contents of this book can be applied without extensive tinkering.Oh, and by the way, the examples on the CD are fiddly to get running as well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Useful overview of db development
Comment: I would recommend this book to those who want to understand the db development environment without being bogged down in too much detail.
However, once you need to get to lower level work for real development this book cannot substitute for more specialised volumes.Overall recommended.
dan
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mixed emotions
Comment: I am using this book as the selected text for a second course in Visual Basic. I am about half way through the text. The main objections I have to the book are that the author jumps around between SQL server and Access, often without telling you which one ( or even which of several example databases) he is using. As a result, the code often does not work with the DB you are using. Also, most often,the author only gives code for Access or SQL server, not both, so you spend A LOT of time trying to convert code to get things to work. Lots of times, the author leaves code lines out expecting you to have learned it earlier. If you don't have SQL server, you are going to have a hard time with this book (eval copy is supplied on CD but I couldn't get it to install on win 2000 pro - fortunately I have SQL 7 on another NT 4 machine). Despite these complaints, I am learning a fair amount by persevering and the book does cover quite a bit of material...you just have to spend a lot of time figuring out what he is really doing. Finally, you have to plan to use the complete code supplied on the CD to decipher the text. The text leaves out things that only become clear by extensive examination (and, many times, modification) of the code on the CD. In conclusion, I am finding the book useful and I am learning how to use ADO (author skips DAO etc. as being outdated) but it is more painful than I would like.
