Re: Best practices in ADO

Thanks Stephen... I couldn't have said it better myself. But sadly, the book
is free in many countries that expect IP to be freely distributable.

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"Stephen Howe" <stephenPOINThoweATtns-globalPOINTcom> wrote in message
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>> Is your posting helpful I wonder?
>
> Yes it is. Other books on ADO I have, mostly by WROX press and they
> dissect
> ADO, analysing things by ADO objects, properties, methods, events and all
> of
> them have only a thin chapter on best practices - virtually nothing on ADO
> or its inner secrets. They are scanty on examples as well. Examples mostly
> in VB, some VC, some Java
>
> The original "ADO Examples and Best Practices" from Apress with the deep
> cherry purple and white cover was the best book on ADO. Examples were in
> VB,
> nothing in VC++.
>
> The successor covering ADO & ADO.NET in purple and white I know less
> well -
> but I have.
> The only disappointment I had was that the Record object was not covered
> that well - it can be used to save 15% of time for a single record SELECT
> compared to an equivalent 1 record Recordset.
>
> Imagine if I wrote a book on Albert Einstein and in my book all I covered
> was his height, weight, eye colour, shoe size, shirt size, trouser size,
> his
> nationality, where he was born, where he died, who he married, how many
> children he had - would that cover his life?
>
>> Is it free?
>
> No. Was your posting helpful I wonder?
>
> Stephen Howe
>
>


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