Serious ADO: Universal Data Access with Visual Basic

by Robert MacDonald

From seasoned developer and trainer Rob Macdonald comes Serious ADO: Universal Data Access with Visual Basic, which teaches experienced Visual Basic developers how to make the most of ADO, Microsoft's flagship product for database access. Serious ADO covers the full range of uses for ADO, from basic use of the ADO technology to specialized topics and advanced techniques that will benefit even the most experienced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893115194
• ISBN13: 9781893115194
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 611 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

This is really good ADO book

I only have a few months to come up with an architecture for the front end. Personally, I prefer working with powerbuilder better because of their excellent product that works well with databases. I worked with VB 4 years ago and used RDO and DAO a lot. I was not impressed with them at all because you don't have a lot of control over the database issues. I thought ADO was going to be the same and I did not have a good feeling about it. Having only a few weeks to get me up-to-speed, I thus bought this book. It was a very good decision. This book explains in details about the recordset, command, and parameter objects that you need to know before designing/developing your first app (in my case). My perception on ADO has changed 3 days after I started reading this book, thanks to this book.This book teaches you how from the beginning especially on what methods to adopt when fetching, updating, deleting, or inserting records. You will find out all those chapters on connected/disconnected recordset to be very helpful.In our new app, I am supposed to create a middle-tier and take advantage of connection pooling. This book also has a detail description on how you can go about implementing a three-tier. A beginner may find this book to be a bit challenging since there are a lot of ideas need to be digested. However, for someone who has some ideas on design and need to find out what is the best way to execute it, in this case writing a good vb app, this is the book for you.

I love this book

I should reveal my conflict of interest here: This book is published by APress and I'm currently writing a book for APress. And there are a couple of good ADO books out there, from other publishers. This one is my favourite. The book covers all of ADO and, more importantly, gives you the author's guidence on how and when to use those features. I learn something new everytime that I pick it up.

An excellent guide to getting the best out of ADO

I found this book an approachable, clearly presented and thorough guide to using ADO. A strength of this book is the way in which it give the reader an understanding of how ADO works `under the covers' and the consequences of different design decisions. The author presents a balanced view of the technology, clearly explaining the benefits and power of ADO while never succumbing to the somewhat sycophantic attitude towards Microsoft that can be found in some other books. Not, perhaps, an ideal book for those new to working with databases, but if you are looking to understand how ADO really works and make best use of it in your applications then this book comes highly recommended.

Thanks Rob, A Book that delivers MORE than it promises

I started reading what looked like a heavy book on ADO, and finished up really understanding how to use ADO in all kinds of applications. I now know about marshaling and MTS transactions, and how ADO was designed to work with these technologies. I really recommend this book to anyone who wants to go beyond typing in code samples. It explained so much more about how to put applications together, and my users are very happy with the improvements to my applications. I now feel like an expert!

My bookshelf loves this book

because here is one ADO text that replaces 5 ADO books with a red spine.Having spent months trying to get my head round ADO, I have finally succeeded thanks to Serious ADO. It has explained everything I needed to know, and some things I had previously ignored. I love the layout - and the content - so full marks all round