Web Database Development Step by Step [With CDROM]

by Jim Buyens

As Web sites continue to grow in complexity and in the volume of data they must present, databases increasingly drive their content. "Web Database Development Fundamentals" is ideal for the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735609667
• ISBN13: 9780735609662
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 425 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great starting point...

This is a great starting point for anyone looking to take their database to the web. Of course, if you have some prior knowledge of ASP and VBscript, it makes it much easier. Although I have many years of VB and SQL Server experience, I still read this in its entirety and found some great info for taking some of the DB's at my job to our corporate intranet and across the internet. This book takes you step by step (as the title implies) from designing your database (predominantly in Access although he explains how to connect to other databases) to getting it accessible through the web. The examples are great and they tend to build on each other. By the end of the book you should have a good foundation to design any type of data driven website you can imagine and password authenticate it as well.If you are starting out and you are using Microsoft software, then this is a literal cookbook for web database success. Kudos to Jim Buyens for putting out an informative book that reads quickly.

A Cookbook with Good Insight

This was money well spent! I am a college student who has had one database class and one object-oriented programming class (C++). I also have a copy of this author's "Running FrontPage 2000" book. Armed with those, I am very quickly on my way to having an impressive first-ever database-driven Web site--and I'm enjoying the learning process.Mr. Buyens does a good job of introducing and overviewing database design/construction and VBScript considering these are part of the cookbook, but not the topic of it.I wanted to build a Microsoft-driven database-driven Web site, and Mr. Buyens has provided the book I needed, in a format that is working very well for me: a cookbook with good insight (into the technologies involved).The only other book I considered before buying this one was "Beginning ASP Databases." I sincerely doubt that it's as step-by-step as this book, and that's a feature I really wanted.

Great Starting Point

If you have never done any ADO, or ADO with ASP, this book is a great start. I don't come from a relational back-ground at all, I come from a Lotus Notes Development background - and I found this a good entry point... so with this in mind, I think the book would be good for those who have some development skills, but haven't really toyed with ADO and ASP at an Enterprise level.I am a strong advocate of the "Build one solid enterprise project example, chapter by chapter". I believe this is the most effective style to actually help you become a true enterprise developer - none of usual cope snippets (which is alright if that is what you are looking for).The book covers basic Database designs and concepts; Accessing databases with ADO and ODBC; accessing Tables and Records with ADO, Server-side scripting; performing keyword searches; updating tables from a web page; performing text queries etc etc... All in the one useful example / project.Jim's style of writing is mature and educated to point where you feel comfortable with a technology you may have no idea about. Irrespective of technical knowledge, I think you will feel comfortable with this book because of Jim's style.The book is a gem... the only thing that bites me, is that the spine of book is poorly constructed, the glue in the spine gave way and half the pages feel out! Ha! So I am onto my second book and it doing the same thing... which is shame, because it would make a great reference book.

Excellent Resource for Beginners

People, it does not break down any easier than this! This book explains all the basics in clear, concise, and easy to follow examples. Be warned, you will not want to stop learning after reading this book. Probably the most impressive facet of this book is that it uses Notepad (or any text editor) for all examples of ASP despite its ties to Microsoft. It uses Access for database examples as it is the most readily available. This book does a great job demystifying the "data-driven" web page. If you are beginner or a web author with some fuzzy notions of data-driven web pages (as I was), get this book. 6-stars!!!

Really Helpful

When I started reading this book, I knew nothing of ASP, ADO AcitveX, XML or even HTML. Using only this book, I built a moderately complex, Microsoft-centric, web accessed database from scratch. The book gives you just enough information to get the job done. Easy read. Straight to the point. Helpful examples.